Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 01:31:23 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Chuck Paterson <cp@bsdi.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preemptive kernel on older X86 hardware Message-ID: <82645.959243483@localhost> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 May 2000 19:08:00 PDT." <200005250208.TAA78220@apollo.backplane.com>
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> On intel anyway, subroutine calls are *cheap*, especially compared > to the overhead of a locked instruction or even an L1 cache miss. I don't believe this is true on all the architectures FreeBSD is anticipated to run on in the "near future", however. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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