From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932498AbVHRWSs (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:18:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932494AbVHRWSr (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:18:47 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:43504 "EHLO av.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932368AbVHRWSr (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:18:47 -0400 Message-ID: <4305093C.9040400@mvista.com> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:18:36 -0700 From: George Anzinger Reply-To: george@mvista.com Organization: MontaVista Software User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Fedora/1.7.6-1.3.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David S. Miller" CC: anton@samba.org, clameter@engr.sgi.com, vamsi.krishnak@gmail.com, tony.luck@intel.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Multiple virtual address mapping for the same code on IA-64 linux kernel. References: <3faf0568050816142715f14c2c@mail.gmail.com> <20050818182955.GD27446@krispykreme> <20050818.142840.82684573.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20050818.142840.82684573.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David S. Miller wrote: > From: Anton Blanchard > Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 04:29:55 +1000 > > >>Calling itanium the "fastest 64bit processor at any given clock frequency" >>on lkml is likewise inflammatory :) > > > I totally agree. Since the itanium off loads a lot of its instruction steam decisions on to the compiler(s), where other processors just do it, one might argue that you can not even characterize the itanium without bundling in the compilers... Not to say that is wrong but just to make it clear that saying the itanium speed is is like saying that a cummings diesel is fast with out saying what sort of car/truck it is mounted in. -- George Anzinger george@mvista.com HRT (High-res-timers): http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/