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Date:      Thu, 14 Feb 2002 09:31:36 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC
Message-ID:  <20020214093136.A5456@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200202131847.g1DIlp851160@freefall.freebsd.org>; from alfred@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 10:47:51AM -0800
References:  <200202131847.g1DIlp851160@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 10:47:51AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> alfred      2002/02/13 10:47:51 PST
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/i386/conf        GENERIC 
>   Log:
>   Re-enable WITNESS for GENERIC.  Since the 5.x branch is mostly about
>   SMP we'd like as much feedback as possible from users about possible
>   locking problems as early as possible.

Thank you.  :-)

>   To negate most of the performance impact I've also enabled
>   WITNESS_SKIPSPIN.  I've done this as we've been running WITNESS
>   over the spinlock code for a while without incident and it goes a
>   long way to making the performance problems of WITNESS much more
>   bearable.

A good compromise.

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