kernel sources for FC3 2.6.9-1.667
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Wed Nov 10 18:33:16 UTC 2004
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 05:54:08PM +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:
> What about the 4G/4G split? Are we still where we were in April over the
> performance losses due to that?
It's still not proven that it causes significant performance
problems other than those picked up by microbenchmarks, which are
uninteresting. *every* benchmark comparison I've seen between
4g/4g and a non-4g/4g kernel has been skewed due to sillyness
like also disabling HIGHMEM support completely.
> (In
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-April/msg01888.html
> Alan Cox said that "its also about 10% slower on my laptop" and you
> replied:
> > It's somewhat strange that a few weeks ago when 4g/4g was temporarily
> > disabled, absolutely *no-one* said "Hey, it got 10% faster!"
> )
*shrug* nothing changed since then.
Dave
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