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Date:      Sun, 23 May 2004 20:54:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files.amd64
Message-ID:  <20040523205250.T66525@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040523183858.7C3DA16A557@hub.freebsd.org>
References:  <20040523183858.7C3DA16A557@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Sun, 23 May 2004, Bruce Evans wrote:
>   The SMP case hasn't been tested.  The high resolution subcase of this uses
>   the i8254, and as on i386's, the locking for this is deficient and the
>   i8254 is too inefficient.  The acpi timer is also too inefficient.

The ACPI timer is significantly better than it used to be.  It is
currently just a bus_space_read, which maps directly to inl.  The fact
that IO ports are slow is inescapable.

-Nate



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