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Re: [PATCH 2.6.12.1 5/12] S2io: Performance improvements

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.12.1 5/12] S2io: Performance improvements
From: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 08:48:30 -0400
Cc: "'Christoph Hellwig'" <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "'David S. Miller'" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, raghavendra.koushik@xxxxxxxxxxxx, jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, leonid.grossman@xxxxxxxxxxxx, rapuru.sriram@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 04:13:57PM -0700, Ravinandan Arakali wrote:
Hi Christoph,
Following is SGI's stand on this issue:

SGI recommends that customers use the -sn2 kernel. This is the kernel that is installed by our factory when we ship systems. The -sn2 kernel is also the kernel that must be run if the Altix has more that 128 CPUs. So I'd be surprised it the majority of the Altix systems in the field are not running the -sn2 kernel.

The my argument is wrong for SuSE ;-)  This still needs to be a runtime
switch though, not just for this reason.  Platform ifdefs are not the
way to go.

Hi Ravinandan,

Ditto for SGI Altix on Red Hat -- platform specific ifdefs are not the proper way to do this.

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