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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Subject: Re: A proposal - binary
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 12:47:35 +0200
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On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 12:01:52AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> =

> There is no reason Summit or es7000 or any other subarchitecture =

> would need to do different  virtualization. In fact these subarchitecture=
s =

> are pretty much obsolete by the generic subarchitecture and could be fully
> done by runtime switching.
>...

Has anyone measured the performance impact of rutime CLOCK_TICK_RATE =

switching (since this will no longer allow some compile time =

optimizations in jiffies.h)?

> -Andi

cu
Adrian

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