Re: [PATCH] Support for assymmetric SMP

Frank van de Pol (fvdpol@home.nl)
Tue, 12 Mar 2002 23:01:29 +0100

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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