From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 28 14:51:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peedub.muc.de (peedub.muc.de [193.149.49.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4471F37C0DD for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:51:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.muc.de) Received: from peedub.muc.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.muc.de (8.9.3/8.6.9) with ESMTP id AAA00582; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 00:49:47 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200003282249.AAA00582@peedub.muc.de> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UP kernel performance and Matt Dillon's patches Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Mar 2000 00:22:38 +0200." <20000328144701.G21029@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 00:49:47 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein writes: >* 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: > * $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/i386/mplock.s,v 1.30 2000/03/28 07:16:15 dillon Exp >$ > I have * $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/i386/mplock.s,v 1.31 2000/03/28 18:06:37 dillon Exp $ Matt fixed the bug which was preventing compilng a UP kernel. So I guess it is likely, after all. --- Gary Jennejohn / garyj@muc.de garyj@fkr.cpqcorp.net gj@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message