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Date:      Wed, 03 May 2000 10:05:41 +0200
From:      Christoph Splittgerber <cs@sdata.de>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        Brian Hechinger <BHechinger@half.com>, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, jgowdy@home.com, smp@csn.net, jim@thehousleys.net, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hlt instructions and temperature issues
Message-ID:  <390FDDD5.41EC0293@sdata.de>
References:  <200005021851.LAA22601@usr01.primenet.com>

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Terry Lambert wrote:
> []
> If the gains are purely thermal, perhaps not.  It does introduce
> an additional context switch latency, when leaving the scheduler,
> for the CPU that is running -- this means that it penalizes the
> IPI sending CPU to wake up the receiving CPU.  But I think that
> if this is done correctly, this will be practically unmeasurable.
> 

But isn't this discussion useless anyway, since we have seti@home ? :-) :-)

Christoph


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