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Date:      Tue, 29 Oct 2002 14:48:08 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/include alpha_cpu.h atomic.h
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021029144808.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <15806.56354.160323.233692@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On 29-Oct-2002 Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> John Baldwin writes:
>  > 
>  > Ok, it survived a buildworld on the DS20 (with EV6's) ok.
>  > I updated it and also patched the 8- and 16-bit versions in
>  > atomic.s as well.  The patch is at ~jhb/public_html/patches/alpha.patch
>  > on freefall.  Feel free to commit it since you did the brunt of
>  > the work.  FWIW, it didn't seem to make a noticable difference in
>  > world time.
> 
> Thanks.  Will do.
> 
> As for the lack of improvement.. do you have quantitative results?
> Were they with or without WITNESS?  

Well, I was only doing -j 2 on a 2 CPU system, so I may not have
been fully stressing the system.  I think my full buildworld
time went from like 2:06 to 2:02 or some such.  With -j 8
and the mb's removed it was 1:56 or some such.  These are with
WITNESS and INVARIANTS though.

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