Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:38:15 +0100 (CET) | | From | Michael Meyer <> | | Subject | Re: performance differences: "maxcpus=1" vs. "echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online" |
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--- Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com> schrieb:
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 02:47:50PM +0100, Michael > Meyer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > what is the difference between booting a dual core > > machine with "maxcpus=1" or by deactivating the > second > > core at run time with "echo 0 > > > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online"? > > maxcpus=1 should turn off the SMP alternative and > switch to UP only, > optimising some locks and instructions.
Can this be achieved during runtime also? And is it possible to switch back to SMP after that?
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