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| author | Rickard Green <[email protected]> | 2014-02-23 20:04:30 +0100 |
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| committer | Rickard Green <[email protected]> | 2014-02-23 20:04:30 +0100 |
| commit | b2017b91a5572f7bc2caf15082b4b105f3a3e21d (patch) | |
| tree | 4f4ea3d654467043895a613b45b40f27f1a9d476 /HOWTO | |
| parent | db911c1f15372d2dadf06e8502506b0936a4fbb3 (diff) | |
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Introduce configure option --with-assumed-cache-line-size=SIZE
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diff --git a/HOWTO/INSTALL.md b/HOWTO/INSTALL.md index c9f4062b83..fb18676699 100644 --- a/HOWTO/INSTALL.md +++ b/HOWTO/INSTALL.md @@ -274,6 +274,11 @@ Some of the available `configure` options are: `(g)cc` * `--enable-m32-build` - Build 32-bit binaries using the `-m32` flag to `(g)cc` +* `--with-assumed-cache-line-size=SIZE` - Set assumed cache-line size in + bytes. Default is 64. Valid values are powers of two between and + including 16 and 8192. The runtime system use this value in order to + try to avoid false sharing. A too large value wastes memory. A to + small value will increase the amount of false sharing. * `--{with,without}-termcap` - termcap (without implies that only the old Erlang shell can be used) * `--with-javac=JAVAC` - Specify Java compiler to use |