My wish list for 6.1

[Kris Kennaway]

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 
> > > should also select the correct one for the target system and make that
> > > the default on boot.
> > 
> > If people are concerned about performance, I benchmarked a 6-beta
> > kernel SMP versus UP on a socket 939 Opteron.
> 
> 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
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