Commit 40e27565 authored by Michael Ellerman's avatar Michael Ellerman

powerpc/powernv: Always enable SMP when building powernv

The powernv platform supports Power7 and later CPUs, all of which are
multithreaded and multicore.

As such we never build a SMP=n kernel for those machines, other than
possibly for debugging or running in a simulator.

In the debugging case we can get a similar effect by booting with
nr_cpus=1, or there's always the option of building a custom kernel with
SMP hacked out.

For running in simulators the code size reduction from building without
SMP is not particularly important, what matters is the number of
instructions executed. A quick test shows that a SMP=y kernel takes ~6%
more instructions to boot to a shell. Booting with nr_cpus=1 recovers
about half that deficit.

On the flip side, keeping the SMP=n kernel building can be a pain at
times. And although we've mostly kept it building in recent years, no
one is regularly testing that the SMP=n kernel actually boots and works
well on these machines.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
parent ebbe9d7d
......@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ config PPC_POWERNV
select CPU_FREQ_GOV_CONSERVATIVE
select PPC_DOORBELL
select MMU_NOTIFIER
select FORCE_SMP
default y
config OPAL_PRD
......
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