From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 17 03:51:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA15572 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 03:51:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA15537 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 03:51:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id LAA04957; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 11:50:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from [194.32.164.2] by seagoon.gid.co.uk; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 11:48:08 +0100 (BST) X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19980809164437.C11095@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199808090649.XAA23702@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Sat, Aug 08, 1998 at 11:49:51PM -0700 <19980809160829.A11214@freebie.lemis.com> <199808090649.XAA23702@implode.root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 11:48:06 +0000 To: Greg Lehey From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: AMD-specific kernel code (was: How long a wait?) Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 4:44 pm +0930 9/8/98, Greg Lehey wrote: >[...] >Still, that's not proven. I've put the patches on >ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/AMD-write-allocate-patch. They relate to >today's -CURRENT. How about some other people grabbing them and >trying them out? I've been running a pretty mixed workload with and without these since you posted. The effect seems to be marginal (less than 1%): compute-bound jobs win, others lose. -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message