On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 07:53:06PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le mercredi 06 juillet 2005 à 13:09 -0400, Dave Jones a écrit :
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 07:26:59AM -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> > Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > >On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 07:13 -0400, Build System wrote:
> > >
> > >>- Drop x86-64 SMP kernels, and make generic kernel use SMP.
> > >why is this??
> >
> > Presumably it's because so many processors these days are either Hyper-
> > Threaded or (soon) dual-core. At some point, the benefit of building
> > and shipping uni-processor kernels is less than the cost.
>
> Indeed. The proportion of UP vs SMP x86-64's out there is only
> going to increase in favour of SMP.
And anyway can't we expect a full RT preempt kernel soonish ? As long as
we're making everyone SMP.
Current fc5 kernels are preemptable using voluntary preemption,
and have been for about a week or so.
Dave