From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 00:09:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 00:09:44 -0500 Received: from tapu.f00f.org ([202.49.232.129]:32150 "EHLO tapu.f00f.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 00:09:43 -0500 Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:19:56 -0800 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Alan Cox Cc: Larry McVoy , "Martin J. Bligh" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call Message-ID: <20030225051956.GA18302@f00f.org> References: <1510000.1045942974@[10.10.2.4]> <20030222195642.GI1407@work.bitmover.com> <2080000.1045947731@[10.10.2.4]> <20030222231552.GA31268@work.bitmover.com> <3610000.1045957443@[10.10.2.4]> <20030224045616.GB4215@work.bitmover.com> <48940000.1046063797@[10.10.2.4]> <20030224065826.GA5665@work.bitmover.com> <1046093309.1246.6.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1046093309.1246.6.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-No-Archive: Yes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:28:30PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > _If_ it harms performance on small boxes. You mean like the general slowdown from 2.4 - >2.5? It seems to me for small boxes, 2.5.x is margianlly slower at most things than 2.4.x. I'm hoping and the code solidifes and things are tuned this gap will go away and 2.5.x will inch ahead... hoping.... > The definitive Linux box appears to be $199 from Walmart right now, > and its not SMP. In two year this kind of hardware probably will be SMP (HT or some variant). --cw