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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 1998 11:48:06 +0000
From:      Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: AMD-specific kernel code (was: How long a wait?)
Message-ID:  <l03020906b226a5b43660@[194.32.164.2]>
In-Reply-To: <19980809164437.C11095@freebie.lemis.com>
References:  <199808090649.XAA23702@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Sat, Aug 08, 1998 at 11:49:51PM -0700 <19980809160829.A11214@freebie.lemis.com> <199808090649.XAA23702@implode.root.com>

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At 4:44 pm +0930 9/8/98, Greg Lehey wrote:
>[...]
>Still, that's not proven. I've put the patches on
>ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/AMD-write-allocate-patch.  They relate to
>today's -CURRENT.  How about some other people grabbing them and
>trying them out?

I've been running a pretty mixed workload with and without these since you
posted. The effect seems to be marginal (less than 1%): compute-bound jobs
win, others lose.


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