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)