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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/2] Skip empty hash buckets faster in /proc/net/tcp
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:03:16 -0800
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 > On a 2GB Core2 system here I see a time cat /proc/net/tcp > /dev/null
 > constently dropping from 0.44s to 0.4-0.8s system time with this change.

Seems like there must be a typo in either the before or after times
you report here?