How to build smp kernel

[Feng Xian]

Thanks!

On 11/11/07, Jarod Wilson <jwilson at redhat.com> wrote:
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> Feng Xian wrote:
> >  Hi,
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> >   I had a 16-core machine and tried to build a smp version of
> >  linux-2.6.23 kernel. I did the following steps:
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> >  1. make menuconfig ( actually I didt change the configuration since it
> >  builds SMP support by default)
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> All of our x86 and x86_64 kernels are smp-aware, there is no separate
> smp kernel, the same kernel is used for single-processor and
> multi-processor systems.
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> >  2. make; make modules; make modules_install; make install
> >
> >  But the final image file is  vmlinuz-2.6.23, not vmlinuz-2.6.23smp. Is
> >  this final image a real smp kernel? If not, do i need to apply
> >  patches. Thanks!
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> In the past when we did have a separate kernel-smp package (actually, we
> still do for ppc32), the 'smp' was inserted by part of the rpm build
> process, it doesn't happen automagically, just because you enabled smp
> in the kernel config.
>
> - --
> Jarod Wilson
> jwilson at redhat.com
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