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Date:      Thu, 29 Nov 2001 21:52:08 +0900
From:      Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.freebsd.org>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on vmware 
Message-ID:  <20011129215208U.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200111282004.aa22335@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
References:  <20011129000718I.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <200111282004.aa22335@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>

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iedowse> ... but only if you spend most of your time running CPU benchmarks :-)

That's right :-)

iedowse> On slower CPUs (I was using a 400MHz PII), the interrupts can
iedowse> soak up virtually all of the available processing capacity
iedowse> without the patch. I suspect this effect is responsible for
iedowse> the most dramatic speedups.

I don't know that we can add a new option, maybe named 'VMWARE_GUEST',
for specific hardware.  But if someone (I don't know who) allows us to
do, we all VMware users will be happy with it.

-- -
Makoto `MAR' Matsushita

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