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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: garlof@suse.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SMP on assym. x86
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:20:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010322132040.A31@(none)> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010321165541.H3514@garloff.casa-etp.nl> <99anl4oi@penguin.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <99anl4oi@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:16:20AM -0800

Hi!

> Kurt Garloff  <garloff@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> >recently upgrading one of my two CPUs, I found kernel-2.4.2 to be unable to
> >handle the situation with 2 different CPUs (AMP =3D Assymmetric
> >multiprocessing ;-) correctly.
> 
> This is not really a configuration Linux supports. You can hack it to
> work in many cases, but I'm generally not inclined to make this a an
> issue for me because:

Notice, that one of your CPUs is twice as fast as second one. You'll
need some heavy updates in scheduler.

-- 
Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt,
details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-03-22 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-21 15:55 SMP on assym. x86 Kurt Garloff
2001-03-21 16:32 ` Mark Hahn
2001-03-21 23:41   ` Alan Cox
2001-03-22 12:00     ` Kurt Garloff
2001-03-22 13:48       ` Mark Hahn
2001-03-23 10:19       ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-03-21 17:16 ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found] ` <99anl4oi@penguin.transmeta.com>
2001-03-22 13:20   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-03-23 10:18     ` Kurt Garloff
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2001-03-21 19:13 James Bottomley

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