kernel sources for FC3 2.6.9-1.667

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Wed Nov 10 16:55:42 UTC 2004


On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 10:45:16AM -0500, David Cary Hart wrote:

 > On one hand, the FC3 packages are compiled with the "mtune=pentium4"
 > flag yet the kernel is distributed based on PentiumPro. Then it has the
 > additional overhead of the generic x86 code.

You'll be hard pressed to find a real-world example where this makes a
noticable difference. Even microbenchmarks will likely be in the less
than 5% range.

 > There are all those PCI
 > fixes that the vast majority of people don't need. The standard RZ1000
 > "fix", for example, hasn't been used since Neptune and causes a
 > deterioration in disk performance

IFF you have a Neptune chipset.  Same as the other quirks. They
only run when the relevant device is found.
 
		Dave




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