Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jul 2003 18:44:26 +0200 | From | Herbert Poetzl <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fastwalk: reduce cacheline bouncing of d_count () |
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On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 04:20:14PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Maw, 2003-07-08 at 16:00, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > ...but I do agree with your comment. The patch I meant to refer to > > (see revised title) does not appear in the 2.5.x tree either. > > > > Have we BTW been shown any numbers that support the alleged benefits? > > I may have missed those... > > A while ago yes - on very big SMP boxes. > > Its no big problem to me since I can just back it out of -ac
just curious, because I use this patch since early 2.4.20, are there any reasons to 'back it out of -ac' for you?
anyway I totally agree that the NFS issue pointed out by Trond should be addressed ...
TIA, Herbert
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