On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 11:39:04PM -0800, Tony Foster wrote: > > I am fairly new to Linux but I was fairly good with unix 10 years ago. > I am assuming that the kernel with the SMP tag is for HW with multiple > processors? correct. > If so then the question is will that SMP kernel be well behaved on a > Single processor hardware? Mostly. There are some systems (especially laptops) that will lock up very early on in boot. Of those that do boot successfully, some CPUs pay more of a cost than others when it comes to running spinlocks and similar locked operations. Dave
