From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael S. Zick" Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Support for 2.4.x kernels on hppa Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 12:12:03 -0500 Message-ID: <200405251212.03591.mszick@goquest.com> References: <20040524183227.GW7207@tausq.org> <20040525122124.7154e4d2.gmsoft@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <20040525122124.7154e4d2.gmsoft@gentoo.org> List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: parisc-linux-bounces@lists.parisc-linux.org On Tue May 25 2004 05:21, Guy Martin wrote: > On Mon, 24 May 2004 11:32:27 -0700 > > please speak up now! > > Personaly, I don't care about 2.4 even if 2.6 doesn't have SMP. With a > 2.4, my D270 compiles things slower with SMP than without.=20 Hmm... Probably related to the slow fork/exec on hppa and the effect of SMP load balancing in kernel scheduler - There has been continuous work to improve fork/exec - I don't know if the changes have been applied to 2.4.x systems - others on this list will know. > I also have=20 > other problems with SMP like packet loss to localhost, making portmap > and other socket dae=F9on unusable. 2.4?? or 2.6?? (2.6.x has i/o scheduling) Mike > > > hth _______________________________________________ parisc-linux mailing list parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org http://lists.parisc-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/parisc-linux