Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 18:22:00 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: dg@root.com, John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: AMD-specific kernel code (was: How long a wait?) Message-ID: <19980808182200.E14475@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199808070644.XAA14097@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 11:44:39PM -0700 References: <XFMail.980807002452.jobaldwi@vt.edu> <199808070644.XAA14097@implode.root.com>
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(following up to -hackers) On Thursday, 6 August 1998 at 23:44:39 -0700, David Greenman wrote: >> I have a question and I hope this is the right list.. How long is the normal >> turn around for a response to a non-critical PR? A friend of mine who runs an >> ISP submitted a PR (6269) that turns on an extra option for AMD K5 and K6 >> CPU's. He says that it gave his AMD-based webserver a whopping 15% performance >> increase! He submitted it on Apr 10 of this year (almost 4 months ago) and no >> one has bothered to even reply to it or anything. As a result, he's somewhat >> disappointed and not to eager to contribute code in the future as he just >> thinks he'll get blown off. Of the programmers that I actually know >> personally, he's the best, and I'd hate for him to not make any further >> contributions. So, how are PR patches normally handled? Do you wait for >> enough people to try it out and respond saying it works? I'm just curious, and >> I wouldn't mind FreeBSD having a patch committed that increases performance by >> 15% on some machines. Please cc me in replies as I'm not subscribed to >> questions, thanks. > > I just looked at the patch. Other than some KNF style bugs, it seems okay. > I don't have any AMD K5/K6 machines, however, so I can't test it and won't > be committing it. > If it could get wider circulation - perhaps by posting a note to hackers > asking for testers, then I think there would be less hesitation in getting > it committed. I've grabbed the code and will try it out and report. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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