Re: Kernel support for specific cpus

[Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>]

Todd Finney pointed me at a site documenting some kernel benchmarks.

These benchmarks show that on a pentium III, lmbench doesn't gain any
improvements over the performance of kernels which didn't offer the
pentium III optimizations:

http://euclid.nmu.edu/~benchmark/

Discussion of this on /.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/09/2327242&mode=thread

Unfortunately, lmbench is narrowly focussed, so it's not safe drawing
conclusions about any typical workloads.

FYI,

-- 
Raul