Re: [benchmark] 1% performance overhead of paravirt_ops on nativekernels

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Jun 09 2009 - 14:08:59 EST




On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> And they'd be even less common if the whole "64-bit kernel even if you do
> a 32-bit distro" was more common.

Side note: intel is to blame too. I think several Atom versions were
shipped with 64-bit mode disabled. So even "modern" CPU's are sometimes
artifically crippled to just 32-bit mode.

Linus
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