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Date:      Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:34:20 -0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Request for review: getcontext, setcontext, etc 
Message-ID:  <20020114183420.F37E0380A@overcee.wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020114120026.S3794-100000@gamplex.bde.org> 

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Bruce Evans wrote:

> 220000 extra FP context switches at 264 cycles each would increase my
> buildworld time by a whole 0.34 seconds or 0.025%.  There may be more
> important things to optimize :-).

Hmm. Sounds like I should do some work more on the IPI TLB shootdown stuff
to finish it off. That speeds up a test kernel compile (compiling entirely
from memory) by 2% to 2.5%. on one of my SMP boxes.  I expect it to be a
bit better when the kernel has to do page stealing.

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5


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