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From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [RFC] dcache scalability patch (2.4.17)
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On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 09:40:08PM +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 10:29:53AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > Where is
> > 	* version for 2.5.<current>
> > 	* analysis of benefits in real-world situations for 2.5 version?
> 
> I know that 2.5 patches are available, but Maneesh will probably
> respond to this on Monday.
> 
> I am working on getting 2.5 measurements done. BTW, would you consider
> specweb99 reasonably real-world ? If not, do you have any suggestions 
> for benchmarks ? I suspect that dbench wouldn't cut it ;-).

Hi Al,

Mark Hahn made a good point over private email that real-worldness
also includes hardware. I will dig around and see if we can work out
a setup with different dual/4CPU hardware to do webserver benchmarks 
and analyze results for 2.5 patches.

Thanks
-- 
Dipankar Sarma  <dipankar@in.ibm.com> http://lse.sourceforge.net
Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India.
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