Re: HEADS UP: GENERIC and X86_64_GENERIC now have 'options SMP'

2011-05-24 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: > Have there been any measurements as to performance penalties with > 'options SMP' on uniprocessor systems? > > -- vs > Not AFAIK, but quantifying the damage should be a definite prerequisite before eliminating the SMP option altogether

Re: HEADS UP: GENERIC and X86_64_GENERIC now have 'options SMP'

2011-05-24 Thread Sepherosa Ziehau
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: > Have there been any measurements as to performance penalties with > 'options SMP' on uniprocessor systems? It's just to ease our iso image generation. My plan is to enable LAPIC and I/O APIC in UP kernel; UP boxes boot w/ SMP kernel (t

Re: HEADS UP: GENERIC and X86_64_GENERIC now have 'options SMP'

2011-05-24 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
Have there been any measurements as to performance penalties with 'options SMP' on uniprocessor systems? -- vs

HEADS UP: GENERIC and X86_64_GENERIC now have 'options SMP'

2011-05-24 Thread Sascha Wildner
Dear Userbase, thanks to sephe's great work in the recent weeks, SMP kernels should boot and work on UP boxes. So I've added 'options SMP' to our default GENERIC and X86_64_GENERIC kernel configs. There are people who are using the vanilla GENERIC or X86_64_GENERIC config from /usr/src/