Re: Need to enable caches in SMP ? (was Kernel 2.6 SMP very slow with ServerWorks LE Chipset)

2006-12-15 Thread Bob
Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Alan wrote: As per Alan's suggestion I decompressed the kernel source tree with the processes pegged to one CPU then the other, and as he predicted it took vastly longer on one CPU than the other, but I don't know what that implies, or how to fix it. From the timing it

Re: Need to enable caches in SMP ? (was Kernel 2.6 SMP very slow with ServerWorks LE Chipset)

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Alan wrote: As per Alan's suggestion I decompressed the kernel source tree with the processes pegged to one CPU then the other, and as he predicted it took vastly longer on one CPU than the other, but I don't know what that implies, or how to fix it. From the timing it sounds like one

Need to enable caches in SMP ? (was Kernel 2.6 SMP very slow with ServerWorks LE Chipset)

2006-12-14 Thread Alan
> As per Alan's suggestion I decompressed the kernel source tree with the > processes pegged to one CPU then the other, and as he predicted it took > vastly longer on one CPU than the other, but I don't know what that > implies, or how to fix it. >From the timing it sounds like one processor ca