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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:20:40 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: garlof@suse.de
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Subject: Re: SMP on assym. x86
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Hi!

> Kurt Garloff  <garloff@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> >recently upgrading one of my two CPUs, I found kernel-2.4.2 to be unable to
> >handle the situation with 2 different CPUs (AMP =3D Assymmetric
> >multiprocessing ;-) correctly.
> 
> This is not really a configuration Linux supports. You can hack it to
> work in many cases, but I'm generally not inclined to make this a an
> issue for me because:

Notice, that one of your CPUs is twice as fast as second one. You'll
need some heavy updates in scheduler.

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