On Mer, 2005-03-02 at 22:28, Dave Jones wrote: > The winchips had a funky feature where you could mark system ram > writes as out-of-order. This led to something like a 25% speedup iirc > on benchmarks that did lots of memory copying. lmbench showed > significant wins iirc, but any results I had saved are long since > wiped out in hard disk failures/cruft removal over the years.
Yep - providing your kernel is built for it you get about 20-30% speed up against a base kernel. It's the one freak case (in 2.4 anyway) where kernel cpu options matter. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
