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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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