From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268802AbUHTXds (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 19:33:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268803AbUHTXdr (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 19:33:47 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:26604 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268802AbUHTXdk (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 19:33:40 -0400 Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 09:31:26 +1000 From: Anton Blanchard To: William Lee Irwin III , Andrew Morton , Jesse Barnes , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1-mm3 Message-ID: <20040820233126.GJ1945@krispykreme> References: <20040820031919.413d0a95.akpm@osdl.org> <200408201144.49522.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> <200408201257.42064.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> <20040820115541.3e68c5be.akpm@osdl.org> <20040820200248.GJ11200@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040820200248.GJ11200@holomorphy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040803i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Parallel compilation is an extremely poor benchmark in general, as the > workload is incapable of being effectively scaled to system sizes, the > linking phase is inherently unparallelizable and the compilation phase > too parallelizable to actually stress anything. There is also precisely > zero relevance the benchmark has to anything real users would do. I spend most of my life compiling kernels and I consider myself a real user :) Anton