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SubjectRe: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance
FromAlan Cox <>
Date18 Dec 2002 15:50:53 +0000
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 05:34, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> The P4 optimisation guide promises horrible things if you write within
> 2k of a cached instruction from another CPU (it dumps the whole trace
> cache, it seems), so you'd need to be careful about mixing mutable data
> and the syscall code in that page.

The PIII errata promise worse things with SMP and code modified as
another cpu ruins it and seems to mark them WONTFIX, so there is another
dragon to beware of

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