🐧Linux 6.17 Looks Like It Could Go Ahead And Make SMP Support Unconditional
｢ This rework reduces kernel complexity for maintenance and ongoing development. But for anyone running in a uniprocessor world, making SMP unconditional does lead to some slight overhead. But again the number of uniprocessor systems in 2025+ running a single core processor and upgrading to new mainline Linux kernel releases is especially tiny ｣