Kernel 2.6.17 RPM builds
Arjan van de Ven
arjan at fenrus.demon.nl
Fri Jun 23 14:44:36 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 08:05 -0600, mike at cchtml.com wrote:
> Why are the people in charge of the kernel RPM making seperate RPMs for
> non-SMP and SMP?
probably because SMP kernels do not boot on a large number of UP
machines....
2.6.17 doesn't change that; all 2.6.17 changes is that the cost of
spinlocks gets reduced somewhat... (but not annihilated entirely)
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