Re: [patch] new pipe code

From: Manfred Spraul (manfreds@colorfullife.com)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 04:41:09 EST

Mark Hahn wrote:
>
> > My new pipe code is finished:
>
> how does it work on the single most common use of pipes,
> gcc -pipe? especially in the context of a kernel compile...
> from your earlier comments, it sound like it might make
> make -j2 more efficient on increasingly commonplace dual ia32's...
>
I didn't try "gcc -pipe", but I ran a few lmbench programs:

                stock with my patch
./lat_fifo
                19.4 18.4
./lat_ctx:
                ovr=4.8 ovr=4.5
                2 4.8 4.5
                4 5.8 5.5
                6 6.9 5.8
                8 6.9 6.1

On a dual P/II 

--
	Manfred

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