Re: Upgrade RH9 kernel -> RHEL 3 kernel

[Eric Rostetter <rostetter mail utexas edu>]

Quoting Robert Arkiletian <robark gmail com>:

> > Many of the same features are in the RHL 9 kernel.
> 
> The only one I am aware of is the Native Posix Thread Library (NPTL).
> Do you know which other features were backported to RHL9?

No, just that some like NPTL and ACL support are there.
 
> > A lot of those are in RHL 9, some are not.  Which ones are you interested
> in?
> 
> The one which I was hoping to get was the Scheduler support for
> hyperthreaded CPUs.

No, sorry, none of the scheduling stuff is in RHL 9. For that, you would
need the RHEL kernel, or a real 2.6 kernel.

> I know that the new scheduler is able to discern
> between virtual and real cpus and therefore schedules processes
> optimally on Hyperthreaded CPU's. I have a dual Xeon at my school so
> this feature would be welcome.

Yes, I'm also awaiting being able to use hyperthreading in a sane
way, so I feel your pain.  But no go with RHL 9.  You'll need to
upgrade either the OS or the kernel, as you previously noted.
 
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Eric Rostetter