From: Frank van de Pol <fvdpol@home.nl>
To: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>,
Linux kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"S. Chandra Sekharan" <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support for assymmetric SMP
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 23:01:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020312230128.A3838@idefix.fvdpol.home.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020311043421.D2346@nbkurt.etpnet.phys.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20020311043421.D2346@nbkurt.etpnet.phys.tue.nl>
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 04:34:21AM +0100, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> Hi,
>
> some time ago (2.4.2 time), I created a patch that allows using a
> multiprocessor system with different speed ix86 CPUs and Linux.
>
> The patch does the following:
> * Make sure we got the flags right (in case they are different) before we
> enable XMM/FXSR/.... Right means common subset of supported features.
Running quasi symetric system (dual P-II 300 MHz, but different cores, one
is Klamath, other is Deschutes) the fix for the flags is very usefull and
I'd like to see it integrated in the stock kernels. Perhaps the flags and
the (more controversial) speed patches can be split?
Regards,
Frank.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-12 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-11 3:34 Kurt Garloff
2002-03-11 4:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-03-11 11:25 ` Kurt Garloff
2002-03-11 12:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-03-12 15:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-03-13 16:17 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-13 16:40 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-03-12 22:01 ` Frank van de Pol [this message]
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