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From: David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 03:21:34 +0000
Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] Re: prctl patch for fpu faults
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>>>>> On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 20:11:58 -0700, "Mallick, Asit K" <asit.k.mallick@intel.com> said:

  >> Can you be more specific?  A machine should easily tolerate a
  >> rate of one logged message per second, so if this makes a
  >> significant performance difference, that would be strange.

  Asit> We saw a 2-5% performance degradation of specfp benchmarks
  Asit> when the logging was enabled. I can take a look at this again
  Asit> and see how often the FPSWA messages are getting logged.

On which one?  Speed or throughput?

	--david