[Voyage-linux] ATOM Dual Core (SMP)

[Edwin Whitelaw]

First, congrats on the the release of 0.7!

We have historically used the WRAP then ALIX boards for our routers but 
now need more than 100mbs on the wired interfaces and are testing a 
dual-core ATOM board with dual Gige ethernet.  0.6.5 loaded and ran fine 
but did not support SMP so the dual cores weren't active.  We recompiled 
the Voyage 0.6.5 kernel with SMP support and it runs fine showing all 
"four" processors.  Not sure if this will be significant for our routing 
needs though we plan to do extensive NAT and other iptables rule 
handling so I suspect having all the CPU power I can get is a good thing.

Would it be reasonable to enable SMP either in general or for an ATOM 
version of the kernel?

I will be recompiling the 2.6.32 Voyage kernel for SMP shortly and 
happily share it if anyone's interested.

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Edwin Whitelaw, P.E.
New River Valley Unwired, LLC
2200 Lonesome Dove Dr
Christiansburg, VA 24073
540-239-9074