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From: Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca>
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Subject: Re: [patch] scheduler cache affinity improvement in 2.4 kernels by
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>      The UniProcessor throughput  was reduced by 40%.
>      The 4-way throughput showed a very slight degradation of 1%.
>      The 8-way throughput showed an improvemnet of 10%.

what a waste of time: volanomark loopback is deliberately unlike
any real-world workload, so noone can sanely use these numbers.
why not compare to something vaguely intelligible?  even lmbench
would be more interesting...

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