From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Apr 21 8:14:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from midget.dons.net.au (daniel.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.137.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 969221523E for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 08:14:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from guppy.dons.net.au (guppy.dons.net.au [203.31.81.9]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA58341; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:41:57 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990421145208.8A7571F2A@spinner.netplex.com.au> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:41:57 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel J. O'Connor" To: Peter Wemm Subject: Re: Really slow SMP Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org, "Daniel J. O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 21-Apr-99 Peter Wemm wrote: > Memory type is uncacheable?!? Is that saying what it sounds like? > > (There is no MTRR synchronization like there was before. Previously the > BSP would dump all it's MTRR registers to a table and all the other AP > cpus would load that table on startup. That table doesn't exist anymore.) Hmm.. no memory cache.. Blech. I have the same comment on my machine too in dmesg. I'm assuming its an SMP only thing otherwise the list would be chock full of complaints :) And I didn't realise how useful caching was ;) So is there any solution? --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message