From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Jan 27 12:44:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5793237B400 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 12:44:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA23682; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 15:44:30 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.1/8.9.1) id f0RKiUq29514; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 15:44:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 15:44:30 -0500 (EST) To: Bernd Walter Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current failing on PC164 In-Reply-To: <20010127181650.A6504@cicely5.cicely.de> References: <14958.59036.411197.382347@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20010127181650.A6504@cicely5.cicely.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14963.12976.121070.21427@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org FWIW, the perf. decrease you noticed is probably directly related to the mutex stuff no longer being inlined -- function calls are pretty expensive on alpha. I saw a huge perf. increase when we inlined spl's last year. But John is right, you shouldn't be using the ktr stuff unless your actively debugging something. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message