> > - metrics -- L1 cacheline size is the important one: you align array
...
> Anyone can give me some pointers on how this is done runtime ? (name of
> the .c file is fine).
kernel/sched.c:aligned_data. as mentioned elsewhere,
the correct alignment is not necessarily L1 linesize.
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> - metrics -- L1 cacheline size is the important one: you align array
> elements to this size when you want a per-cpu array, so that multiple
> CPUs do not share a cacheline for accessing their "own" structure.
> Proper alignment avoids "cacheline ping-pong", as it's called,
> whenever t
On 2000-12-12T12:26:26,
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > And thus it follows that 2.2.18 is the least buggy kernel ever, since
> > it has gotten the most bug fixes.
> >
> > Right? (:
> Hopefully not.
I _do_ hope that 2.2.18 is the least buggy kernel ever... Why do you hope
otherwise? ;
> - maybe they'll need to patch lm_sensors to accommodate the increased
> temperature range since the P4 runs so hot. (: (:
Also there is a new 'rep nop' instruction that means 'short pause' and is
used in spinlocks.
Alan
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> And thus it follows that 2.2.18 is the least buggy kernel ever, since
> it has gotten the most bug fixes.
>
> Right? (:
Hopefully not.
Remove
arch/m68k
arch/arm
include/asm-m68k
include/asm-arm
drivers/usb
drivers/char/agp
drivers/char/
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:30:37PM -0600, Paul Fulghum wrote:
> From: "Alan Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Linux 2.2.18 Release Notes
>
> patch-2.2.18.tar.gz size=2.9MBytes
Ehrm?! A tar'ed-up patch?! You didn't mean something like:
3049653 Dec 11 00:45 patch-2.2.18.gz
now did you?! :^)
> fr
Peter Samuelson wrote:
>
> [AC]
> > > ... added basic support for the Pentium IV.
> [Android]
> > How is the Pentium IV more advanced than the Pentium III, other than
> > speed? Why would LInux care about a 1500 MHz clock or 400 MHz bus
> > speed? Just treat the PIV as a faster PIII
[AC]
> > ... added basic support for the Pentium IV.
[Android]
> How is the Pentium IV more advanced than the Pentium III, other than
> speed? Why would LInux care about a 1500 MHz clock or 400 MHz bus
> speed? Just treat the PIV as a faster PIII.
It all sounds so simple, right? Se
> ... added basic support for the Pentium IV. Unfortunately Intel
chose to
> ignore all precedent in model numbering via cpuid and report a
> family of '15'. This sudden jump broke assumptions in the
> kernel tree without any warning. Intel have failed to p
[Paul Fulghum]
> from my scanning of the kernel archives, this is the *all time*
> largest kernel patch (including 2.3/2.4 patches).
And thus it follows that 2.2.18 is the least buggy kernel ever, since
it has gotten the most bug fixes.
Right? (:
Peter
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From: "Alan Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Linux 2.2.18 Release Notes
patch-2.2.18.tar.gz size=2.9MBytes
from my scanning of the kernel archives, this is the *all time*
largest kernel patch (including 2.3/2.4 patches).
Go team :-)
Paul Fulghum
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