Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 09 Sep 2002 10:24:20 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: LMbench2.0 results |
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>> > An idea that's looking more and more attractive as time goes by is to >> > have a global config option that specifies that we want to choose the >> > simple way of doing things wherever possible, over the enterprise way. >> > We want this especially for embedded. On low end processors, it's even >> > possible that the small way will be faster in some cases than the >> > enterprise way, due to cache effects. >> >> Can't we just use the existing config options instead? CONFIG_SMP is >> a good start ;-) How many embedded systems with SMP do you have? > > You need to look at it from the other direction: how do the needs of a > uniprocessor Clawhammer box differ from a Linksys adsl router?
I wouldn't call uniprocessor Clawhammer the "enterprise way" type machine. But other than that, I see your point. You're in a far better position to answer your own question than I am, so I'll leave that as rhetorical ;-)
M.
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