From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 23:44:42 +0000 Subject: Re: should ia64_spinlock_contention do backoff? Message-Id: <16484.49258.833848.666518@napali.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: <200403251941.i2PJfrTH026392@napali.hpl.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <200403251941.i2PJfrTH026392@napali.hpl.hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:16:52 -0800 (PST), markw@osdl.org said: Mark> We have 4-way Itanium2 systems here. Is that large enough for testing? Bigger is better and of course NUMA is harder than UMA, but certainly 4-way can provide useful data-points. --david