Re: SMP Athlon troubles under high load

From: Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Date: Tue Aug 13 2002 - 16:22:51 EST

Next message: Ingo Molnar: "[patch] user-vm-unlock-2.5.31-A2"
Previous message: Ingo Molnar: "[patch] clone-detached-2.5.31-B0"
In reply to: Pau Montero Parés: "SMP Athlon troubles under high load"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 04:37:28PM +0200, Pau Montero Parés wrote:
> processor : 0
> vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family : 6
> model : 4
> model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
> stepping : 4

According to my notes, 644 isn't a valid CPU for reliable MP operation.
The earliest Athlon rated 'smp safe' is model 6 stepping 0.
Anyone with anything earlier that isn't having problems is
getting 'lucky'.

Dave.

-- 
| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Next message: Ingo Molnar: "[patch] user-vm-unlock-2.5.31-A2"
Previous message: Ingo Molnar: "[patch] clone-detached-2.5.31-B0"
In reply to: Pau Montero Parés: "SMP Athlon troubles under high load"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Aug 15 2002 - 22:00:34 EST