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From: Tobias Doerffel <tobias.doerffel@gmail.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Specific support for Intel Atom architecture
Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 13:08:45 +0200
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Am Sonntag, 3. Mai 2009 08:48:54 schrieb H. Peter Anvin:
> Willy Tarreau wrote:
> >> $(call cc-option,-march=atom,-march=i686)
> >
> > if it's an in-order architecture, wouldn't it be better to tune for i386
> > or i486 instead ?
>
> Possibly.  It would be worth measuring.
How would one do that (never benchmarked kernel stuff before)?

Regards,

Tobias


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