Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S273298AbTHFChO (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 22:37:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S273336AbTHFChN (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 22:37:13 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-bos.redhat.com ([66.187.230.200]:7291 "EHLO chimarrao.boston.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S273298AbTHFChH (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 22:37:07 -0400 Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 22:37:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com To: "Scott L. Burson" cc: Andrew Morton , , Subject: Re: SMP performance problem in 2.4 (was: Athlon spinlock performance) In-Reply-To: <16172.14411.843546.121234@kali.zeta-soft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 864 Lines: 22 On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Scott L. Burson wrote: > I see that even the very most recent Red Hat kernel (2.4.20-19.7, > released only two weeks ago) does not seem to have these fixes. Look again. The kernel that came with RH9 has pretty much all of the highmem fixes, the update kernels later on have them all. The main difference is that the VM in RH9 is closer to that of 2.5, so the patches don't look the same. -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan - 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/