From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@linuxcare.com.au>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] 2.4.0-test6-pre2 Merge softirq, local_irq_count, local_bh_count
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 17:14:36 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14731.48860.794336.528961@argo.linuxcare.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7892.965367999@ocs3.ocs-net>
Keith Owens writes:
> This patch hits every arch. It is being cross mailed to every arch
> mailing list that has not already confirmed that the patch works.
> Please trim replies to the relevant mailing list.
Seems to work ok on uniprocessor PPC. The 2.4 kernels have problems
on SMP PPC boxes at the moment so I haven't tested it on SMP.
Have you done any measurements, with lmbench or whatever, to measure
how much performance improvement you get with the patch?
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2000-08-05 7:37 ` [RFC] 2.4.0-test6-pre2 Merge softirq, local_irq_count, local_bh_count Keith Owens
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