From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 00:21:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 00:21:35 -0500 Received: from cx97923-a.phnx3.az.home.com ([24.9.112.194]:18952 "EHLO grok.yi.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 00:21:25 -0500 Message-ID: <3A580BA9.ADAA2B97@candelatech.com> Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 23:24:41 -0700 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jamal CC: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel , "netdev@oss.sgi.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumissionpolicy!) In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org jamal wrote: > > Not to stray from the subject, Ben's effort is still needed. I think real > numbers are useful instead of claims like it "displayed faster" A single #define near the top of the patch will turn it on/off, so benchmarking should be fairly easy. Please suggest benchmarks you consider valid. Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear (greearb@candelatech.com) http://www.candelatech.com Author of ScryMUD: scry.wanfear.com 4444 (Released under GPL) http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/