From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 12:14:41 -0700 To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Message-ID: <20030209191441.GA21938@dsl2.external.hp.com> References: <20030208222242.AA3554829@dsl2.external.hp.com> <20030208222746.GB19683@dsl2.external.hp.com> <20030208232303.B27544@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20030209031014.GD19683@dsl2.external.hp.com> <20030209122913.G27544@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20030209122913.G27544@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> From: grundler@dsl2.external.hp.com (Grant Grundler) Subject: [parisc-linux] Re: [parisc-linux-cvs] linux grundler Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 12:29:13PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > I'll upload it to unofficial-debs and people will be able to apt-get > install it from there. cool - thanks. > Sure, but there's a measurable performance difference if you compile out > spinlocks if people care about the last 5% performance, they still have several options: o build your own kernel o run HPUX I've not done or seen any lmbench perf results recently but before hpux was 10x faster on context switch/task related stuff. And X11 server takes advantage of HW acceleration. (I'm associating UP systems with graphics which isn't always true) grant