Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jul 2003 17:00:35 +0200 | Subject | RE: [PATCH] Fastwalk: reduce cacheline bouncing of d_count () | From | Trond Myklebust <> |
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>>>>> " " == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> I was a little suprised it went in, it never seemed a candidate > for dealing with a stable tree, just optimisation stuff that is > 2.5 material only
As you can see, I screwed up on the title, so I may have confused you... ...but I do agree with your comment. The patch I meant to refer to (see revised title) does not appear in the 2.5.x tree either.
Have we BTW been shown any numbers that support the alleged benefits? I may have missed those...
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