From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 28 14:22:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1305E37BED8 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:22:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e2SMl1c16291; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:47:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:47:01 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Gary Jennejohn Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UP kernel performance and Matt Dillon's patches Message-ID: <20000328144701.G21029@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200003282137.XAA05281@peedub.muc.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200003282137.XAA05281@peedub.muc.de>; from garyj@muc.de on Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 11:37:55PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Gary Jennejohn [000328 14:04] wrote: > I'm running a UP machine with Matt's latest changes. I was just > compiling a new kernel and noticed the my PS/2 mouse under X was very > sluggish. I never noticed this sort of behavior before the changes, > even while doing ``make -j8 buildworld''. > > The compile was running on a UW SCSI disk on an Adaptec aic7880 Ultra > SCSI adapter on my motherboard, in case it matters. > > Looks like something has been verschlimmbessert (a wonderful German > word which means "made worse through improvement" :) This is unlikely as a UP kernel doesn't seem to compile after Matt's changes (no offence Matt, I know you're getting to it), when was the last time you didn't see this sluggish behavior, how are you compiling your kernel? What's your Id line for sys/i386/i386/mplock.s ? Mine is: * $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/i386/mplock.s,v 1.30 2000/03/28 07:16:15 dillon Exp $ -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message