Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: SMP on a UP system | Date | Fri, 5 Mar 1999 02:47:55 +0000 (GMT) |
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> I would say yes. I did some thread creation latency benchmarking across > 2.0/2.1,w&woSMP/winNT/BeOS on a UNI machine and 2.1 NON-SMP rocked them all > (the only one that could compete was solaris x86 (data mesured using the > tsc register)).
The SMP kernel wont run on some non SMP boxes, and is a bit bigger and slower, maybe 15% in real terms from experience. The question is whether 15% is worth the hassle of maintaing two kernel sets in your environment
Alan
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