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>>>>> "Julian" == Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> writes:

Julian> David Gilbert wrote:

Julian> there are also changes in B4->B7 that ar related to scheduling
Julian> the packet delivery mechanisms..  They may not make much of a
Julian> difference but...

I will endevour to do cvsup and retest, then.

BTW, is there a kernel profiling howto out there?  Or would someone
like to help with it?  Before the hardware goes into production, I'd
like to siphon out as much data as possible.

Julian> It's good that we are finally getting the functionality to a
Julian> point where we can start to worry about performance again :-)

Amen.

Dave.

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