kernel modules and smp wrong choice?

Gilboa Davara gilboada at netvision.net.il
Sun Oct 23 09:14:52 UTC 2005


's/of -mtune does/of -mtune doesn't/g'

Gilboa

On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 07:22 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> Fedora core (be that FC3 and/or FC4) are optimized for i686 and
> compatible with i386.
> They are not optimized for Xeon.
> 
> According to Fedora devs, such optimization will yield limited
> improvement. 
> (Which to my own experience, in most part, this is true; using -march
> instead of -mtune does really increase the code's performance.)
> 
> Gilboa
> 
> On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 21:58 +0200, Danny Terweij - Net Tuning | Net
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have a dual xeon machine and using latest smp kernel with FC3.
> > Someone told me that the pentium pro libs are loaded instead of the xeon
> > family.
> > 
> > Must i be concern? or is there a way to load the good libs for the dual xeon
> > cpu's.
> > 
> > Danny
> > 
> > 
> > 
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