From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 17 08:01:11 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BBB716A41F for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:01:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9B0843D4C for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:01:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B548E1A3C23; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 00:01:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CEF1952B7D; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 03:01:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 03:01:09 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Avleen Vig Message-ID: <20051217080109.GA31849@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <43A26FFB.9080405@samsco.org> <20051216104022.A20877@cons.org> <20051217063409.GB19094@silverwraith.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="liOOAslEiF7prFVr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051217063409.GB19094@silverwraith.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My wish list for 6.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:01:11 -0000 --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--