From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 11 16:18:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA25333 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 16:18:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25321 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 16:18:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA15006; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 08:47:56 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id IAA24967; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 08:47:41 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980812084741.G22754@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 08:47:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Tamiji Homma Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD-specific kernel code (was: How long a wait?) References: <19980811130910.Q20188@freebie.lemis.com> <19980811081637E.thomma@baynetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19980811081637E.thomma@baynetworks.com>; from Tamiji Homma on Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 08:16:37AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 11 August 1998 at 8:16:37 -0700, Tamiji Homma wrote: > Greg, > > I tried K6 write-allocation patch last night. Here is the result > of make buidlworld (about 10 days old) > > PA-2007, K6-300(75MHz x 4.5), IBM UW 4(9ES)/NCR875. > > 2856.7 999.0 1:04:53.13 98.8% 826+918k 36516+37325io 3263pf (without patch) > 2827.3 970.7 1:05:01.36 97.3% 832+923k 41049+40435io 3217pf (with patch) Interesting. You get less CPU time in both user and system, yet slightly longer compile times. Strange. I still don't think that make world is the best test of this facility. It would be nice to see something more like the "web server" scenario. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message