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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: mkanand@us.ibm.com, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bhartner@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: context switches increased in 2.5.40 kernel
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:26:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DAC79FA.5D7A8651@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021015.131458.29964525.davem@redhat.com

"David S. Miller" wrote:
> 
>    From: Mala Anand <mkanand@us.ibm.com>
>    Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 14:44:35 -0500
> 
>    Does this have anything to do with tcp_wakeup patch?
> 
> Please do not mention patches by name, this tells
> me nothing.  What "tcp_wakeup patch" are you talking
> about?

That would be the patch which uses prepare_to_wait/finish_wait
in networking.  It sped up specweb by 2%, btw.

But that is not present in 2.5.40, and has not been in -mm
since 2.5.40-mm1.  I assume it wasn't present in Mala's testing.

      reply	other threads:[~2002-10-15 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-15 19:44 context switches increased in 2.5.40 kernel Mala Anand
2002-10-15 20:14 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-15 20:26   ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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