Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Jun 2009 11:07:41 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [benchmark] 1% performance overhead of paravirt_ops on native kernels |
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On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > And they'd be even less common if the whole "64-bit kernel even if you do > a 32-bit distro" was more common.
Side note: intel is to blame too. I think several Atom versions were shipped with 64-bit mode disabled. So even "modern" CPU's are sometimes artifically crippled to just 32-bit mode.
Linus
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