Re: Linux v2.5.42

Andrew Morton
2002-10-13T19:53:29Z

Mark Hahn wrote:
>
> I'm bothered by other IBM influences, such as their fixation with
> performance of broken platforms like Profusion, or tuning for NUMA.

Actually it's rather useful to have these platforms around. Because
if you fix a problem on profusion and NUMA-Q, it's really, really fixed
for other hardware...

They show up races and lock contention like crazy.