9fans - fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] freebsd v. plan9 - profile results (long)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 08:59:08 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0406110857180.25275-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40C8A583.7000504@gmail.com>

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Matt Pidd-Cheshire wrote:

> rob pike suggested that the cpu cache might be disabled under plan9,
> if so please to tell me how i can enable it; i'll gladly hack the
> kernel source (mine) if i can get a little guidance, and a bit of
> sleep.

that seems very unlikely to me. It's pretty hard to disable them nowadays 
and I have not yet found a BIOS that would do such a foolish thing. Plus, 
with cache disable EVERYTHING would be slow, as in waiting many many more 
seconds than you would expect for the boot. 

Why did you use kfs and not fossil, I wonder?

ron




      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-06-11 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-10 18:16 Matt Pidd-Cheshire
2004-06-10 18:28 ` rog
     [not found] ` <015201c44f19$ef973f60$61fa7d50@SOMA>
     [not found]   ` <4e24f2fa040610122567fb2f87@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <01bc01c44f21$207a2f50$61fa7d50@SOMA>
     [not found]       ` <4e24f2fa040610124443467e41@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]         ` <01da01c44f24$68899300$61fa7d50@SOMA>
     [not found]           ` <4e24f2fa04061013231be0e279@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]             ` <020101c44f2c$bc7758f0$61fa7d50@SOMA>
     [not found]               ` <4e24f2fa040610142416558b6@mail.gmail.com>
2004-06-10 23:55                 ` boyd, rounin
2004-06-11 14:59 ` ron minnich [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=Pine.LNX.4.44.0406110857180.25275-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov \
    --to=rminnich@lanl.gov \
    --cc=9fans@cse.psu.edu \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).