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Re: Kernel 2.6.17 RPM builds



Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 08:05 -0600, mike 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....
why? does nosmp helps here?
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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