On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 07:58:33AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > SMP may be broken in some cases, and there is a (upto 20-30 % in some cases i > hear) performance hit to it.
For i386. They have to invalidate the cache contents for each lock or so. > Now, with people proposing to run only the SMP > kernels, this may change though. There is a weird patch floating around which nops the locks away on runtime. Bastian -- War isn't a good life, but it's life. -- Kirk, "A Private Little War", stardate 4211.8
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