Re: [Lmbench-users] Re: pipe performance regression on ia64

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Larry McVoy wrote:
> 
> I'm very unthrilled with the idea of adding stuff to the release benchmark
> which is OS specific.  That said, there is nothing to say that you can't
> grab the benchmark and tweak your own test case in there to prove or 
> disprove your theory.

Hmm.. The notion of SMP and CPU pinning is certainly not OS-specific (and
I bet you'll see all the same issues everythwre else too), but the
interfaces do tend to be, which makes it a bit uncomfortable..

			Linus
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