Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 19:23:40 -0600 From: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> To: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com> Cc: smp@freebsd.org Subject: 1st IO APIC test Message-ID: <199610170123.TAA18066@clem.systemsix.com>
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Hi, #if defined( TEST_1 ) /** Peter said: >BTW, if you're feeling "game", try changing the "Delivery mode fixed" on >the counter to "Lowest Priority", making sure that all cpus have a zero in >their TPR and focus processor is disabled. It should then round-robin the >timer scheduling timer interrupt, so that should be the end of >running-forever processes on CPU#1... */ #endif I just did the above test with the following result. Compile time is about the same. Notice the changes in reported user & system times. They look much more reasonable to me, although I have no explanation for the change... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SYMIOXXX kernel, pretest: $ date;time make;date Wed Oct 16 17:46:22 MDT 1996 ... loading kernel rearranging symbols text data bss dec hex 946176 65536 75928 1087640 109898 Wed Oct 16 17:56:01 MDT 1996 578.94s real 0.00s user 522.52s system ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SYMIOXXX kernel, TEST_1: $ date;time make;date Wed Oct 16 18:57:53 MDT 1996 ... loading kernel rearranging symbols text data bss dec hex 950272 65536 75928 1091736 10a898 Wed Oct 16 19:07:37 MDT 1996 584.92s real 418.37s user 97.66s system -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | FreeBSD
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