Re: SMP performance problem in 2.4 (was: Athlon spinlock performance)

From: Rik van Riel (riel@redhat.com)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2003 - 21:37:03 EST


On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Scott L. Burson wrote:

> I see that even the very most recent Red Hat kernel (2.4.20-19.7,
> released only two weeks ago) does not seem to have these fixes.

Look again. The kernel that came with RH9 has pretty much
all of the highmem fixes, the update kernels later on have
them all.

The main difference is that the VM in RH9 is closer to that
of 2.5, so the patches don't look the same.

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Aug 07 2003 - 22:00:31 EST