Hi,

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:13:52PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> 
> On sparc64 we dont care about the different memory zones and iterating
> through them all over the place only serves to waste CPU. I suspect this
> would be the case with some other architectures but for the moment I
> have just enabled it for sparc64.
> 
> With this patch I get close to a 1% improvement in dbench on the dual
> ultra60.

I'd be surprised if dbench was anything other than disk-bound on most
systems.  On any of my machines, the standard error of a single dbench
run is *way* larger than 1%, and I'd expect to have to run the
benchmark a dozen times to get a confidence interval small enough to
detect a 1% performance change: are your runs repeatable enough to be
this sensitive to the effect of the allocator?

Cheers,
 Stephen
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