From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 14 17:34:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA18776 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 17:34:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA18420 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 17:32:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id CAA29773 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 02:32:20 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id CAA28745 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 02:32:20 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id BAA13355 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 01:58:36 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607142358.BAA13355@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Preach it (was Some recent changes to GENERIC) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 01:58:35 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199607142320.SAA04064@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at "Jul 14, 96 06:20:43 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As John S. Dyson wrote: > However, the performance improvment of careful inlining is about 5% > at best (in pmap) using lmbench lat_proc. But, with Linux'ers looking > at that kind of difference to distinguish the OSes, I believe that we > should be careful to squeeze where we can. options "LERRY_MK_VOY" But of course, you need to enable this in the GENERIC kernel, so it will actually be used for the benchmarks. :-)) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)