Hi Troy,

does this security update also inlcude the patches for AMD Phenom II X6 CPUs
to ensure the full performance of the 6-cores CPU with activated power management?

Here is a link to a german article on heise-online dealing with that problem:

http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/Performance-Schwaeche-bei-AMDs-Phenom-II-X6-unter-Linux-992514.html

The following links link to kernel patches mentioned in the article:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/969032
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/969032/focus=969035
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/969032/focus=980430
http://git.kernel.org/linus/b810e94c9d8e3fff6741b66cd5a6f099a7887871

Best regards,

Michael.

P.S. Is there any progress with the "XFS on software RAID 5"-problem?


Troy Dawson schrieb:
> Hello,
> The new kernel security update for SL5 has been built and is currently
> being tested.  This is the first kernel update since Update 5 and we are
> being out usual cautious selves.
> 
> We plan on pushing this kernel out on Monday, May 17, 2010 if nobody
> finds any show stoppers with this kernel.
> 
> Two dependencies that are also being tested.
> kmod-gfs
> kvm (SL 5.4 only)
> 
> To test or update
> 
> SL5
> -------
> 
>       yum --enablerepo=sl-testing update kernel\*
> 
> or you can download rpm's by hand at
> 
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/i386/kernel/
> 
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/x86_64/kernel/
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Troy Dawson
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