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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 350] New: i386 context switch very slow compared to 2.4 due to wrmsr (performance)
Date: 18 Mar 2003 16:42:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b58edl$au1$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0303181113590.13708-100000@home.transmeta.com

Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303181113590.13708-100000@home.transmeta.com>
By author:    Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Wow. There aren't many things that AMD tends to show the P4-like "big
> latency in rare cases" behaviour.
> 
> But quite honestly, I think they made the right call, and I _expect_ that
> of modern CPU's. The fact is, modern CPU's tend to need to pre-decode the
> instruction stream some way, and storing to it while running from it is
> just a really really bad idea. And since it's so easy to avoid it, you
> really just shouldn't do it.
> 

AMD, I believe, has an "annotated" icache.

	-hpa
-- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-19  0:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-12  1:35 [Bug 350] New: i386 context switch very slow compared to 2.4 due to wrmsr (performance) Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-12  2:59 ` Dave Jones
2003-02-12  4:21   ` Jamie Lokier
2003-02-12  5:49     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-12 10:12       ` Jamie Lokier
2003-03-10  3:07         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-10 11:06           ` Andi Kleen
2003-03-10 18:33             ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-10 22:44           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-12 12:54     ` Dave Jones
2003-02-12  7:50   ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-12 10:27     ` Jamie Lokier
2003-02-12 10:45       ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-12 17:52         ` Ingo Oeser
2003-02-12 18:13           ` Dave Jones
2003-02-12 18:18           ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-13  2:42             ` Alan Cox
2003-02-13  5:17         ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-02-13 18:07           ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-14  0:14             ` [discuss] " Peter Tattam
2003-02-14  1:29               ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-14  1:51               ` Eric Northup
2003-02-14  2:01                 ` Peter Tattam
2003-02-14  4:07                   ` Thomas J. Merritt
2003-02-14  9:38                     ` Peter Finderup Lund
2003-02-14  8:27               ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-03-19  1:22             ` Rob Landley
2003-02-12  4:18 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-02-12  5:54   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-12 10:18     ` Jamie Lokier
2003-02-12 17:24       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-18 15:24     ` Kevin Pedretti
2003-03-18 16:41       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-18 18:30         ` Brian Gerst
2003-03-18 19:14           ` Thomas Molina
2003-03-18 19:21           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-18 20:03             ` Thomas Schlichter
2003-03-18 20:24             ` Steven Cole
2003-03-19  0:42             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-03-19  2:22               ` george anzinger
     [not found] <20030318165013$55f4@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <20030318184010$6448@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-03-18 20:19   ` Pascal Schmidt
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2003-03-19  9:55 Ph. Marek

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