| To: | Ravinandan Arakali <ravinandan.arakali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [PATCH 2.6.12.1 5/12] S2io: Performance improvements |
| From: | "'Christoph Hellwig'" <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Wed, 3 Aug 2005 00:26:45 +0100 |
| 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. |
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