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Date:      Sun, 30 Apr 2000 12:29:43 +0200
From:      Dave Boers <djb@ifa.au.dk>
To:        Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
Cc:        smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hlt instructions and temperature issues
Message-ID:  <20000430122943.A52481@relativity.student.utwente.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200004300350.VAA13194@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>; from smp@csn.net on Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 09:50:47PM -0600
References:  <200004300350.VAA13194@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>

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On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 09:50:47PM -0600, Steve Passe wrote:
> > In <200004291445.IAA09070@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> wrote:
> > > Did you use the version that had the explicit instruction between the sti
> > > and hlt:
> > > I would like to repeat your experiment.
>
> > Yes, I used Luoqi Chen's original patch, no modifications.
> 
> This is very weird, my times improved with the hlt instruction in place:
> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~fsmp/SMP/hltbenches.html

That agrees with my experience. Seems to have only bright sides, that hlt
instruction ;-)

With the apic instruction between sti and hlt I did notice a few stray irq
7's in my logfiles, however. 

I will now go do a different kind of testing (one I usually use to test
new memory DIMM's: large matrix inversion in double precision). I will do
some benchmarking with and without the hlt instruction. 

You'll all hear from me shortly. 

Regards, 

    Dave. 

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