Re: [ingo patch] 2.4.17 benchmarks

[Ryan Cumming <bodnar42 _at_ phalynx.dhs.org>]

On January 5, 2002 21:50, vvikram _at_ av.stanford.edu wrote:
> 2) further i seperately ran ./lat_proc fork; ./lat_proc exec; ./lat_proc
> shell many times on the vanilla and patched kernels. their output is also
> attached in one file [lat_proc.txt]. the patched kernel takes
>    MORE time than the vanilla one......

I'd blame this partially on the reverted fork() execution order bit of his 
patch. The child process really should be executed first, and performance is 
much improved in that case (COW and things). I don't think we should worry 
about breaking obviously incorrect (and already fragile) programs for 2.5.x.

-Ryan
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