From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Mackerras MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <14731.48860.794336.528961@argo.linuxcare.com.au> Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 17:14:36 +1000 (EST) To: Keith Owens Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: [RFC] 2.4.0-test6-pre2 Merge softirq, local_irq_count, local_bh_count In-Reply-To: <7892.965367999@ocs3.ocs-net> References: <7892.965367999@ocs3.ocs-net> Reply-To: paulus@linuxcare.com.au Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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? -- Paul Mackerras, Senior Open Source Researcher, Linuxcare, Inc. +61 2 6262 8990 tel, +61 2 6262 8991 fax paulus@linuxcare.com.au, http://www.linuxcare.com.au/ Linuxcare. Support for the revolution. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/