Need to enable caches in SMP ? (was Kernel 2.6 SMP very slow with ServerWorks LE Chipset)

Alan
2006-12-14T10:55:05Z

> As per Alan's suggestion I decompressed the kernel source tree with the
> processes pegged to one CPU then the other, and as he predicted it took
> vastly longer on one CPU than the other, but I don't know what that
> implies, or how to fix it.

>From the timing it sounds like one processor cache is disabled which is a
little peculiar to say the least.

Alan