Messages in this thread |  | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: 'Mega patch 2.1.14#5' | Date | Tue, 10 Dec 1996 00:29:49 +0000 (GMT) |
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> While there is clearly room in the SMP architecture to improve > performance, as the single cpu benchmarks leave lots of headroom, I am > still genuinely awestruck at the increases in 2.1. Where does Linus find > the cycles?
Firstly change arch/i386/mm/init.c and remove the #ifdefs that stop us using 4Mb pages in SMP mode. That'll boost it a bit. Those are just left in for change slowly and check carefully reasons
Alan
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