Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 08:05 -0600, mike(a)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)