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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...

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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 

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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 

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