Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 03:01:09 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Avleen Vig <lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My wish list for 6.1 Message-ID: <20051217080109.GA31849@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20051217063409.GB19094@silverwraith.com> References: <43A26FFB.9080405@samsco.org> <20051216104022.A20877@cons.org> <20051217063409.GB19094@silverwraith.com>
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--liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 10:34:09PM -0800, Avleen Vig wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 10:40:22AM -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > > 2. SMP kernels for install. Right now we only install a UP kernel, = for > > > performance reasons. We should be able to package both a UP and SMP > > > kernel into the release bits, and have sysinstall install both. It= =20 > > > should also select the correct one for the target system and make that > > > the default on boot. > >=20 > > If people are concerned about performance, I benchmarked a 6-beta > > kernel SMP versus UP on a socket 939 Opteron. >=20 > If those results are accurate, there's no real reason not to just use an > SMP kernel on default install? Just because it didn't manifest on this workload, doesn't mean it doesn't on others. I think this is the point :) Kris --liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDo8XFWry0BWjoQKURAvmjAKCxdm87YsTaP/f+8eYBOEbkI1ubIgCfdtQv zjw+YGfzt/ca6AOQ5goSWx0= =QjG8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --liOOAslEiF7prFVr--
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