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Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 09:28:09 +0100 (CET)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [patch] scheduler cache affinity improvement for 2.4 kernels
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On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote:

> It remains to be proven whether the coarser scheduling approach
> (Ingo's) will actually help when looking at cache properties.... [...]

have you seen the numbers/measurements i posted in my original email? 3%
kernel compile speedup on an 'idle' 8-way system, 7% compilation speedup
with HZ=1024 and background networking load on a 1-way system.

	Ingo

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