On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 07:58:33AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > SMP may be broken in some cases, and there is a (upto 20-30 % in some cases i > hear) performance hit to it.
For i386. They have to invalidate the cache contents for each lock or
so.
> Now, with people proposing to run only the SMP
> kernels, this may change though.
There is a weird patch floating around which nops the locks away on
runtime.
Bastian
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