Re: PR 26108 (losing clock ticks with MP)

YAMAMOTO Takashi <[email protected]> Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:16:06 +0900

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.devel.performance
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> I tried this too just now, and it didn't seem to make any difference.
> my test machine loses about 10 microseconds per second both when that
> dd pipeline is running and when the machine is idle.

how about killing a large process which holds many swap slots?
it seems that, without the patch, my machine can lose a few hundred ms
when killing a 1G byte process.

anyway, it's clear that it's bad to spin with IPL_HIGH.

YAMAMOTO Takashi