Andy Green wrote:
> On 01/07/11 16:15, Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>
>> [root@sheeva ~]# cat /proc/cpu/alignment
>> User: 12230853
>> System: 1
>> Skipped: 0
>> Half: 0
>> Word: 0
>> DWord: 1
>> Multi: 0
>> User faults: 0 (ignored)
>
> I wrote about the alignment issue here on ARM:
>
>
http://warmcat.com/_wp/2007/05/25/the-alignment-monster/
Aha, I know what you are talking about now, and I am aware of such
issues. Here is a similar article a friend of mine wrote:
http://www.altechnative.net/?p=48
Does changing the /proc/cpu/alignment setting from 0 (ignored) to 2
(fixup) come with a noticeable performance penalty?
Gordan