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Date:      Mon, 30 Nov 1998 17:24:09 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jc@irbs.com, smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dog Sloooow SMP 
Message-ID:  <199812010124.RAA07019@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Dec 1998 02:33:53 %2B1100." <199811301533.CAA00461@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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> >> >No idea.  I've received verification that fixing this for all 686-class
> >> >CPUs seems to work (ie. it's OK on the Cyrix MII and doesn't appear to 
> >> >impact performance there), so the tests are now generalised for the 
> >> >entire 686-class.
> >> 
> >> It's only OK for MII's because of various `#if 0's and `#ifdef SMP's
> >> that prevent non-OK code from running on MII's.
> >
> >Care to comment on which operations aren't OK?  I did ask for this in 
> >the review phase, with no feedback.
> 
> Most wrmsr()s and rdmsr()s.

I must admit I'd hoped that you would interpret this as "please 
identify those operations that are not OK".  It's obvious that some are 
and some aren't, but not actually identifying *which* ones is not 
helpful.

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