From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 17:16:19 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Instruction Execution Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:51:51 -0700, "Mattox, Dave" said: Dave> I just got my Itanium Machine in and after installing Linux Dave> (no problems with that, good work guys), I tried some timings. Dave> I ran a loop 666,000,000 times and it appears that each bundle Dave> is taking 3 seconds to execute. So this means 3 cycles per Dave> bundle, or 1 cycle per instruction. Is the Lion SDV Machine Dave> executing instructions serially? If it is, is it Linux setting Dave> this, or are the beta chips disabled in some manner? Make sure "Multidispersal" is enabled in the advanced chipset configuration menu of the firmware (BIOS). --david