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Date:      Sat, 8 May 2010 22:55:00 +0000
From:      "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com>
To:        Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>
Cc:        Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com>, alc@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Recent sys/vm/ changes and nvidia-driver
Message-ID:  <AANLkTimZxQDqliRR5pnFy9pOgdiwSTODs2VdeQfPQck7@mail.gmail.com>
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On 5/8/10, Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Brandon Gooch
> <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 4:20 PM, b. f. <bf1783@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> On 05/08/10 13:36, Alan Cox wrote:
>>>> Doug Barton wrote:
>>>>> On 05/05/10 11:56, Alan Cox wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm afraid that I would advise waiting a few days.  This round of
>>>>>> changes
>>>>>> are not yet complete.
>>>
>>> What performance differences, if any, can we expect on uniprocessors
>>> from the vm page lock-related changes? Kip's original post on -arch
>>> mentioned some performance improvements and no significant
>>> regressions, but on a dual 4-core machine.
>>
>> Alan (or Kip): Is there a document available that describes the work
>> being done on the VM system?
>>
>> I would like to -- or like make and attempt to -- read such a document...
>>
>> Hey b. f., to which post on -arch are you referring?
>

I was referring to the message listed in Kip's link below.

> there is no document. The basic idea is straightforward, but there are
> some unpleasant edges to cope with.
>
> http://www.mavetju.org/mail/view_message.php?list=freebsd-arch&id=3155260&thread=no
>
> -Kip
>



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