From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 29 4:52:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from castle.jp.freebsd.org (castle.jp.FreeBSD.org [210.226.20.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1768237B416 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 04:52:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by castle.jp.freebsd.org (8.9.3+3.2W/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA62010 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 21:52:10 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from 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> X-User-Agent: Mew/1.94.2 XEmacs/21.5 (alfalfa) X-FaceAnim: (-O_O-)(O_O- )(_O- )(O- )(- -)( -O)( -O_)( -O_O)(-O_O-) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 16 From: Makoto Matsushita To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on vmware Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 21:52:08 +0900 Message-Id: <20011129215208U.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message