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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 19:14:45 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] NUMA-Q disable irqbalance
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On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > Hmm. And I could _feel_ how my dual HT P4 was slow before the irq issues
> > were fixed.
>
> "If you can't measure it, it doesn't exist"
>
> *runs like hell*

As a clarification to this, I'm not suggesting that interactive
performance doesn't exist, I'm suggesting that we should measure
it.

I've got a few rough ideas on how to measure these things and
will send out a few benchmark proposals shortly.

regards,

Rik
-- 
Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH".

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