From: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:44:10 +1100
> On Tuesday 18 November 2008 07:58, David Miller wrote: > > From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:30:00 -0800 (PST) > > > > > On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, David Miller wrote: > > > > It's on my workstation which is a much simpler 2 processor > > > > UltraSPARC-IIIi (1.5Ghz) system. > > > > > > Ok. It could easily be something like a cache footprint issue. And while > > > I don't know my sparc cpu's very well, I think the Ultrasparc-IIIi is > > > super- scalar but does no out-of-order and speculation, no? > > > > I does only very simple speculation, but you're description is accurate. > > Surely it would do branch prediction, but maybe not indirect branch? Right. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
