Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: CONUNDRUM. | Date | Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:06:20 +0000 (GMT) |
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> > Because its incredibly non obvious. Some of the folk doing big number > > crunches noticed that the size of your environment changed the > > performance. [...] > hm, maybe time to add 'misalignment fault' counting support to the kernel? > Has anyone tried this? Does it work for the FPU too? Is it reliable? ;)
The pentium randomly clears the misalignment fault flag in some cases. Otherwise it might be quite informative!
Alan
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