On Wednesday 13 February 2008 09:41:23 pm Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2008 5:43 PM, <labelles@(protected):
> > Hello,
> >
> > My environment is mixed RHEL4 and RHEL5.
> >
> > I note that on my RHEL4 boxes the installed kernel is SMP specific.
> >
> > On my RHEL5 boxes it seems that just the standard kernel is installed.
> >
> > I believe that at RHEL5 the standard kernel is SMP aware. Could
> > someone verify that for me?
>
> Yes, at some point they decided to just make the regular kernel SMP. I
> think it is that most 686+ systems can deal with it nicely where 586
> didnt always.

Not quite. There were code improvements that made running an smp-capable
kernel on non-smp not have nearly as much overhead as it used to.

http://lwn.net/Articles/164121/

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Jarod Wilson
jwilson@(protected)

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