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Date:      Tue, 27 Apr 1999 19:43:37 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Cc:        peter@netplex.com.au, darius@dons.net.au, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Really slow SMP
Message-ID:  <199904271943.MAA03094@usr04.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199904231442.HAA00413@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Apr 23, 99 07:42:17 am

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> > (There is no MTRR synchronization like there was before.  Previously the
> >  BSP would dump all it's MTRR registers to a table and all the other AP
> >  cpus would load that table on startup.  That table doesn't exist anymore.)
> 
> Hmm.  It's quite likely that the BIOS is only setting the MTRRs in the 
> BSP; why aren't the APs doing this anymore?

Right; this is the crux of the matter: it used to work, now it doesn't.

Clearly, the SMP patches are what had this effect; the question is why?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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