RE: [PATCH] Fastwalk: reduce cacheline bouncing of d_count
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
08 Jul 2003 16:20:14 +0100
On Maw, 2003-07-08 at 16:00, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> ...but I do agree with your comment. The patch I meant to refer to
> (see revised title) does not appear in the 2.5.x tree either.
>
> Have we BTW been shown any numbers that support the alleged benefits?
> I may have missed those...
A while ago yes - on very big SMP boxes.
Its no big problem to me since I can just back it out of -ac
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/