Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance

Pavel Machek
2002-12-19T22:29:34Z

Hi!

> > User on cpu1 reads time, communicates it to cpu2, but cpu2 is drifted
> > -50ns, so it reads time "before" time reported cpu1. And gets confused.
> >
>
> How can you get that communication to happen in < 50 ns?

I'm not sure I can do that, but I'm not sure I can't either. CPUs
snoop each other's cache, and that's supposed to be fast...

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