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Date:      Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:41:57 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel J. O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@freebsd.org, "Daniel J. O'Connor" <darius@dons.net.au>
Subject:   Re: Really slow SMP
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990422004157.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <19990421145208.8A7571F2A@spinner.netplex.com.au>

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On 21-Apr-99 Peter Wemm wrote:
>  Memory type is uncacheable?!?  Is that saying what it sounds like?
>  
>  (There is no MTRR synchronization like there was before.  Previously the
>   BSP would dump all it's MTRR registers to a table and all the other AP
>   cpus would load that table on startup.  That table doesn't exist anymore.)

Hmm.. no memory cache.. Blech.

I have the same comment on my machine too in dmesg. I'm assuming its an SMP
only thing otherwise the list would be chock full of complaints :)

And I didn't realise how useful caching was ;)

So is there any solution? 

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum




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