Re: 604e's suck (was Yaboot Config Question)

2001-04-09 Thread Michel Lanners
On 7 Apr, this message from Peter Cordes echoed through cyberspace: > Now that I think about it again, maybe the problem is just that the L2 > cache is on the mobo, as well as being shared, so the CPUs have to go > through the bottleneck bus to get to it. Yeah, nothing like a backside cache, th

Re: 604e's suck (was Yaboot Config Question)

2001-04-08 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 03:17:24PM -0700, Taro Fukunaga wrote: > I don't have the technical background to follow a lot of this thread, > but I've been studying pthreads, and it seems that whether a certain > process gets executed more quickly on a multiprocessor computer depends > on how well the p

Re: 604e's suck (was Yaboot Config Question)

2001-04-07 Thread Taro Fukunaga
I don't have the technical background to follow a lot of this thread, but I've been studying pthreads, and it seems that whether a certain process gets executed more quickly on a multiprocessor computer depends on how well the process uses threads for concurrency. So in a compilation sc

Re: 604e's suck (was Yaboot Config Question)

2001-04-07 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 04:26:02AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > I'm afraid it's even worse than that. I haven't looked up the > design specs on the web or anything, but I believe the Daystar > design is quite poor in a number of ways, some of them not really in > their control. First, it's not SM

Re: 604e's suck (was Yaboot Config Question)

2001-04-07 Thread Andrew Sharp
I'm afraid it's even worse than that. I haven't looked up the design specs on the web or anything, but I believe the Daystar design is quite poor in a number of ways, some of them not really in their control. First, it's not SMP, it's really AMP, or Asymetric MP: only processor 0 gets interrupts.