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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 16:45:41 -0700
From: Hanna Linder <hannal@us.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.36-mm1 dbench 512 profiles
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--On Thursday, September 19, 2002 16:38:14 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> wrote:

> Hanna Linder wrote:
>> 
>> ...
>>         So akpm's removal of lock section directives breaks down the
>> functions holding locks that previously were reported under the
>> .text.lock.filename?
> 
> Yup.  It makes the profiler report the spinlock cost at the
> actual callsite.  Patch below.

	Thanks. We've needed that for quite some time.
> 
>> Looks like fastwalk might not behave so well
>> on this 32 cpu numa system...
> 
> I've rather lost the plot.  Have any of the dcache speedup
> patches been merged into 2.5?

	Yes, starting with 2.5.11. Al Viro made some changes to
it and it went in. Havent heard anything about it since...

Hanna

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