From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Sep 5 8:10:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3131A37B401; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 08:10:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.web.de (smtp02.web.de [217.72.192.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E49843E3B; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 08:10:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Lentfer@web.de) Received: from [217.225.196.147] (helo=floundjan.homeip.net) by smtp.web.de with esmtp (WEB.DE(Exim) 4.75 #2) id 17myGl-0000ui-00; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 17:10:07 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost.lan [127.0.0.1]) by floundjan.homeip.net (Postfix on FreeBSD 4.5) with ESMTP id E56EB3EB; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 17:10:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from jan-linux.lan (jan-linux.lan [192.168.0.20]) by floundjan.homeip.net (Postfix on FreeBSD 4.5) with ESMTP id 934A2126; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 17:09:45 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: alpha performance on -current From: Jan Lentfer To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: John Baldwin , Andrew Gallatin , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <20020905145156.GB94194@cicely5.cicely.de> References: <15735.27550.588643.958037@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20020905145156.GB94194@cicely5.cicely.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7-1mdk Date: 05 Sep 2002 17:09:43 +0200 Message-Id: <1031238584.2988.14.camel@jan-linux.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Am Don, 2002-09-05 um 16.51 schrieb Bernd Walter: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:43:27AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > On 05-Sep-2002 Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > I'm using the appended diff, which I think is what you're suggesting: > > > > I think what he is really suggesting is to remove the mb's from all the > > atomic_foo ops that don't have _acq or _rel in them. The _acq and _rel > > versions should be wrappers that add mb's. > > Exactly. OK, I didn't get anything from the first sentence until now. What the heck are you guys talking about??? I mean it, could someone explain or even better point me to some resources so I can actually understand what you guys mean? This is about kernel design and memory managment, right? Any recommended readings? Thanks a lot in advance, Jan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message