Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:29:07AM -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote:

 > >  > I'm just saying it would be neat, and potentially
 > >  > useful, to intentionally violate this. Of greatest
 > >  > interest would be the 2-way Opteron boards that
 > >  > only have RAM connected to the CPU closest to PCI.
 > >  > The sidecar CPU :-) could be ignored.
 > > Why on earth would you want to do that ?
 > > It wouldn't buy you anything at all other than a world of pain.
 > faster IO-MMU operations

huh ? You're talking about saving a handful of pci config space writes
per every insertion/removal of entries in that GATT, which need a cpu
cache flush anyway.

		Dave

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