On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 01:49:05PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 22:32 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > if it does it has "nx" in the flags section in /proc/cpuinfo > > Yes, it has NX. Thanks. I'll load up the SMP kernel. Are there any > specific tests that could show a performance difference between up w/out > NX and SMP w/ NX (and those thing that are re-enabled w/ NX)? Any application which makes use of lots of syscalls should show a noticable difference. Microbenchmarks have shown things like context switching & pipe throughput also go up measurably when sysenter is available. Dave -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
