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Cc: Eric <ericd@free.fr>, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org,
	Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com>
Subject: Re: Low perf with smp
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Mark Kirkwood wrote:
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> As I understand it, when you activate SMP a more accurate, but slower 
> timecounter is chosen (typically 'i8254' instead of 'TSC' on intel HW).

ACPI-fast should be the default with SMP. It's significantly faster than 
i8254

Pete