Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:30:14 -0400
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mention Intel Atom in Kconfig.cpu
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:30:51 +0200
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> 
> > Core2 instruction set with tune=generic is still the best to set.
> 
> Not sure that is true. These option are mostly for the compiler.

exactly, and our benchmarks show that tune=generic is best right now
for Atom. 
(586 scheduling sounds nice, but the pipelines are rather different.
And the benchmarks don't lie..  ;-)


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