Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 00:47:29 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel J. O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org, "Daniel J. O'Connor" <darius@dons.net.au>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Subject: Re: Really slow SMP Message-ID: <XFMail.990426004729.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199904231442.HAA00413@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On 23-Apr-99 Mike Smith wrote: > My apologies for the scad of these in a row; I'm doing my mail while I > lurk in airports, and it hasn't been fun, I tell you. Huh.. :) > > (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. It's quite likely that the BIOS is only setting the MTRRs in the > BSP; why aren't the APs doing this anymore? I guess some BIOSen don't set MTRR's on anything but the first CPU.. Maybe time for a BIOS upgrade..? --- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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