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. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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