From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 30 11:30:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mg137-078.ricochet.net [204.179.137.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2B6537BF1B for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:29:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA00453; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:33:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200003301933.LAA00453@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Jesper Skriver Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP buildworld times / performance tests In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Mar 2000 21:25:35 +0200." <20000330212535.A49637@skriver.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:33:43 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > >Only the i8254 timecounter hardware currently needs interrupt-disabling, > > > >but it is hopefully never used on SMP machines. > > > > > > Worse. It is used by default on SMP machines which don't sport the > > > PIIX timecounter. > > > > ie. anything using the PIIX3 or older (think 440FX dual P6 systems, etc.) > > On the box below, a relative new dual PIII box, with a Intel > motherboard, does it use the i8254 or the PIIX timecounter ? sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware (should have been hw.timecounter.hardware, but whatever) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message