Messages in this thread |  | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: LMbench2.0 results | Date | Mon, 9 Sep 2002 18:55:19 +0200 |
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On Monday 09 September 2002 18:26, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > > 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?
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