Re: 2.3.99-pre1 axp misc patch

[Brian Pomerantz <bapper piratehaven org>]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 12:01:36AM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:
> 
> > I think I had to change a few
> > other things as well, mincore was not defined anywhere and sys_madvise
> > was not defined either.
> 
> I have no idea what sources you're using then.  They're there
> in the snap I pulled off ftp.kernel.org.
>

Hmmm...I patched up from 2.3.51, I'll have to look again to see where
they went.

> 
> > This is the first kernel I've used after the IRQ rewrite, but it seemed like
> > response time is a little slower when there is heavy disk activity.
> > Also, is there a reason that there is never an IRQ handled on CPU 3
> > (the last CPU)?
> 
> I figured that might be the case.  Andrea's last set of irq patches
> delivered an interrupt to all cpus, only one of which would eventually
> handle it.  The rest of them wasted time.
> 

I guess that would explain why in the 'try' columns all the CPUs tried
to service the interrupts. :)


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