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Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 14:51:15 -0800
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: percpu-2.5.63-bk5-1 (properly generated)
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On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:40:01AM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> OK, that seems to get rid of the SDET degradation, but I rigged up the
> same test you were doing (make -j) and see only marginal improvement
> from the full patch (pernode2) ... not the 6s you were seeing.
> -pernode2 was your full patch with the fix you sent, -pernode3 was the 
> smaller patch you sent last. Can you try to reproduce the improvment
> were seeing, and grab a before and after profile? I don't seem to be 
> able to replicate it.

Then there must have been something important in the new per_cpu users.


-- wli