| To: | Greg Lindahl <lindahl@conservativecomputer.com> |
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| Subject: | Re: FPU emulator unsafe for SMP? |
| From: | Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com> |
| Date: | Wed, 20 Feb 2002 14:10:51 +0100 |
| Cc: | linux-mips@oss.sgi.com |
| In-reply-to: | <20020219222835.A4195@wumpus.skymv.com>; from lindahl@conservativecomputer.com on Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:28:35PM -0500 |
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:28:35PM -0500, Greg Lindahl wrote: > What you propose, locking the fpu owner to the current cpu, will not > result in a fair solution. Imagine a 2 cpu machine with 2 processes > using integer math and 1 using floating point... how much cpu time > will each process get? Imagine all the funky effects. Now add in a > MIPS design in which interrupts are not delivered uniformly to all the > cpus... I don't know if there are any or will ever be any, but... They already exist, SGI Origin. Ralf |
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