On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:20 PM, b. f. <bf1783_at_googlemail.com> wrote: > On 05/08/10 13:36, Alan Cox wrote: >> Doug Barton wrote: >>> On 05/05/10 11:56, Alan Cox wrote: >>> >>>> I'm afraid that I would advise waiting a few days. This round of >>>> changes >>>> are not yet complete. > > What performance differences, if any, can we expect on uniprocessors > from the vm page lock-related changes? Kip's original post on -arch > mentioned some performance improvements and no significant > regressions, but on a dual 4-core machine. I wouldn't actually worry about UP since the overhead can largely be disabled by building without SMP. I think we need to be looking at how a dual-core system performs, trading off any regressions there against current processor trends of ever higher core and thread count. Cheers, KipReceived on Sat May 08 2010 - 21:25:48 UTC
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