Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263777AbTGHPJ7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:09:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263633AbTGHPJ7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:09:59 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:26028 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263752AbTGHPIq (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:08:46 -0400 Subject: RE: [PATCH] Fastwalk: reduce cacheline bouncing of d_count (Changelog@1.1024.1.11) From: Alan Cox To: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , hannal@us.ibm.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux FSdevel In-Reply-To: <16138.56467.342593.715679@charged.uio.no> References: <16138.53118.777914.828030@charged.uio.no> <1057673804.4357.27.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <16138.56467.342593.715679@charged.uio.no> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1057677613.4358.33.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 08 Jul 2003 16:20:14 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 638 Lines: 16 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 - 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/