Re: SMP kernel on uniprocessor system?

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Sun, 3 Oct 1999 15:21:56 +0200 (CEST)


On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

>slower things are? I would expect for most people, it would be
>imperceivable.

Yes.

As pointed out from others the binary may be eventually a bit bloated too
as some per-CPU data structure may be initialized in the .data segment. If
they are not initialized then there won't be binary image bloat, but there
will be only memory bloat at runtime (.bss).

Andrea

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