From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 8 01:52:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA19241 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 01:52:27 -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 BAA19236; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 01:52:22 -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 SAA03815; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 18:22:02 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id SAA14731; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 18:22:01 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980808182200.E14475@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 18:22:00 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: dg@root.com, John Baldwin Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: AMD-specific kernel code (was: How long a wait?) References: <199808070644.XAA14097@implode.root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199808070644.XAA14097@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 11:44:39PM -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 (following up to -hackers) On Thursday, 6 August 1998 at 23:44:39 -0700, David Greenman wrote: >> I have a question and I hope this is the right list.. How long is the normal >> turn around for a response to a non-critical PR? A friend of mine who runs an >> ISP submitted a PR (6269) that turns on an extra option for AMD K5 and K6 >> CPU's. He says that it gave his AMD-based webserver a whopping 15% performance >> increase! He submitted it on Apr 10 of this year (almost 4 months ago) and no >> one has bothered to even reply to it or anything. As a result, he's somewhat >> disappointed and not to eager to contribute code in the future as he just >> thinks he'll get blown off. Of the programmers that I actually know >> personally, he's the best, and I'd hate for him to not make any further >> contributions. So, how are PR patches normally handled? Do you wait for >> enough people to try it out and respond saying it works? I'm just curious, and >> I wouldn't mind FreeBSD having a patch committed that increases performance by >> 15% on some machines. Please cc me in replies as I'm not subscribed to >> questions, thanks. > > I just looked at the patch. Other than some KNF style bugs, it seems okay. > I don't have any AMD K5/K6 machines, however, so I can't test it and won't > be committing it. > If it could get wider circulation - perhaps by posting a note to hackers > asking for testers, then I think there would be less hesitation in getting > it committed. I've grabbed the code and will try it out and report. 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