Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261388AbVASDVZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 22:21:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261547AbVASDVZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 22:21:25 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:5775 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261388AbVASDVV (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 22:21:21 -0500 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:20:46 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Larry McVoy cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, carl.staelin@hp.com, "Luck, Tony" , lmbench-users@bitmover.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [Lmbench-users] Re: pipe performance regression on ia64 In-Reply-To: <20050119030506.GA19700@work.bitmover.com> Message-ID: References: <200501181741.j0IHfGf30058@unix-os.sc.intel.com> <16877.21998.984277.551515@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20050119030506.GA19700@work.bitmover.com> 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: 752 Lines: 19 On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Larry McVoy wrote: > > I'm very unthrilled with the idea of adding stuff to the release benchmark > which is OS specific. That said, there is nothing to say that you can't > grab the benchmark and tweak your own test case in there to prove or > disprove your theory. Hmm.. The notion of SMP and CPU pinning is certainly not OS-specific (and I bet you'll see all the same issues everythwre else too), but the interfaces do tend to be, which makes it a bit uncomfortable.. Linus - 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/