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Date:      Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:01:47 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC
Message-ID:  <p05101403b891aaea4e33@[128.113.24.47]>
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>

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At 5:23 PM -0800 2/13/02, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>* Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> [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!

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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