On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 10:34:09PM -0800, Avleen Vig wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 10:40:22AM -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > > 2. SMP kernels for install. Right now we only install a UP kernel, for > > > performance reasons. We should be able to package both a UP and SMP > > > kernel into the release bits, and have sysinstall install both. It > > > should also select the correct one for the target system and make that > > > the default on boot. > > > > If people are concerned about performance, I benchmarked a 6-beta > > kernel SMP versus UP on a socket 939 Opteron. > > If those results are accurate, there's no real reason not to just use an > SMP kernel on default install?
Just because it didn't manifest on this workload, doesn't mean it doesn't on others. I think this is the point :) Kris
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