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Date:      Sat, 19 Jun 1999 11:07:36 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Marc Nicholas <marc@netstor.com>
Cc:        Pat Lynch <lynch@bsdunix.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMP and Celerons... 
Message-ID:  <199906191707.LAA86070@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Jun 1999 13:03:10 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906191302400.16699-100000@medulla.hippocampus.net> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906191302400.16699-100000@medulla.hippocampus.net>  

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906191302400.16699-100000@medulla.hippocampus.net> Marc Nicholas writes:
: Hmmm...I always thought there was something "broke" inside Celerons to
: prevent SMP...maybe I'm wrong? Sure would be neat if you could run them
: SMP...

What is "broke" about the Celerons is their cache.  Without a good
cache sharing, you can't get good SMP performance.  While you can run
a SMP Celeron machine, it won't scale as well as the PII version of
the chip.

Warner


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