cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 apic_vector.s local_apic.c mp_machdep.c src/sys/i386/include apicvar.h smp.h src/sys/i386/isa clock.c

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <420A62C9.80405 at freebsd.org>, Scott Long writes:

>I did some testing under an earlier version of this work and found no
>appreciable change in things like I/O and network thoroughput.  What you
>committed is actually more efficient, so there might indeed be a (small)
>gain.

I ran a short round of specialized benchmarks (interrupt latency etc)
and found nothing statistically significant, but a tendency in favour
of the patch.

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