Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 09 Mar 2006 13:07:25 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: State of the Linux PCI and PCI Hotplug Subsystems for 2.6.16-rc5 | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 15:52:35 -0500
> Ubuntu doesn't provide a UP 686 kernel? > > Isn't there a performance hit running an SMP kernel on UP?
There is some cost, but it is mitigated by a patch they include which nops out all the spinlocks when a UP system is detected. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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