Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 18 Dec 2002 15:50:53 +0000 |
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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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