Re: [PATCH]: Only one memory zone for sparc64

2001-03-16 Thread Anton Blanchard
> I'd be surprised if dbench was anything other than disk-bound on most > systems. On any of my machines, the standard error of a single dbench > run is *way* larger than 1%, and I'd expect to have to run the > benchmark a dozen times to get a confidence interval small enough to > detect a 1% p

Re: [PATCH]: Only one memory zone for sparc64

2001-03-16 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:13:52PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > On sparc64 we dont care about the different memory zones and iterating > through them all over the place only serves to waste CPU. I suspect this > would be the case with some other architectures but for the moment I > have

Re: [PATCH]: Only one memory zone for sparc64

2001-03-15 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Anton Blanchard wrote: > On sparc64 we dont care about the different memory zones and iterating > through them all over the place only serves to waste CPU. I suspect > this would be the case with some other architectures but for the > moment I have just enabled it for sparc64

[PATCH]: Only one memory zone for sparc64

2001-03-15 Thread Anton Blanchard
Hi, On sparc64 we dont care about the different memory zones and iterating through them all over the place only serves to waste CPU. I suspect this would be the case with some other architectures but for the moment I have just enabled it for sparc64. With this patch I get close to a 1% improvem