Re: State of the Linux PCI and PCI Hotplug Subsystemsfor 2.6.16-rc5

From: Lee Revell
Date: Thu Mar 09 2006 - 15:50:07 EST


On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 15:10 -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> The difference between our 2.6.15 386 and 686 kernels is actually pretty
> huge. The 386 is M486, and UP, while our 686 kernel is M686, and SMP.
> The SMP is also complicated by our use of the SMP-alternatives patch,
> but I believe I had this user test with this disabled (kernel command
> line option that leaves all the SMP code intact for testing). It didn't
> alter the problem.

Ubuntu doesn't provide a UP 686 kernel?

Isn't there a performance hit running an SMP kernel on UP?

Lee

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