From owner-cvs-all Thu Feb 14 10: 2:10 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2634837B402; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:01:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g1EI1nJ56860; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:01:49 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020213172335.C63886@elvis.mu.org> References: <200202131847.g1DIlp851160@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020213170750.B732@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <20020213172335.C63886@elvis.mu.org> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:01:47 -0500 To: Alfred Perlstein , Greg Lehey From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 5:23 PM -0800 2/13/02, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >* Greg Lehey [020213 17:08] wrote: > > On Wed, 13 February 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > 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. > > >> This might be a good compromise. But we need to agree first. > >This issue has been resolved, the WITNESS_SKIPSPIN stuff seems to >have made people a bit more comfortable about it. Ooo, yes, this sounds useful. I'll have to try it. Thanks! -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message