Re: [Need HELP!] Please help to test kernel patch (sparc64, NUMA)

2014-04-21 Thread Kirill Tkhai
Hi, Patrick, have you tried the patch we spoke about? Could you please test it? Kirill 06.12.2013, 00:44, "Kirill Tkhai" :I attach the patch as file Kirill 05.12.2013, 21:00, "Patrick Baggett" :Kirill,I copied the contents of your email into a patch file, and when I did g

Re: [Need HELP!] Please help to test kernel patch (sparc64, NUMA)

2013-12-05 Thread Kirill Tkhai
I attach the patch as file Kirill 05.12.2013, 21:00, "Patrick Baggett" :Kirill,I copied the contents of your email into a patch file, and when I did git apply --check, it didn't really work:figgles@ghost:~/sparc-numa/sparc$ git apply --check numa.patch error: patch failed: arch/sparc/include/asm/tr

Re: [Need HELP!] Please help to test kernel patch (sparc64, NUMA)

2013-12-05 Thread Patrick Baggett
Kirill, I copied the contents of your email into a patch file, and when I did git apply --check, it didn't really work: figgles@ghost:~/sparc-numa/sparc$ git apply --check numa.patch error: patch failed: arch/sparc/include/asm/trap_block.h:138 error: arch/sparc/include/asm/trap_block.h: patch doe

Re: [Need HELP!] Please help to test kernel patch (sparc64, NUMA)

2013-12-05 Thread Kirill Tkhai
A little performance test: 1) wget http://www.bitmover.com/lmbench/lmbench3.tar.gz 2) tar -zxvf lmbench3.tar.gz 3) cd lmbench3 4) make [You probably will have compilition error: "make[2]: *** No rule to make target `../SCCS/s.ChangeSet', needed by `bk.ver'. Stop." In this case a)

Re: [Need HELP!] Please help to test kernel patch (sparc64, NUMA)

2013-12-04 Thread Patrick Baggett
OK, I have a Sun Blade 2500 (2x UltraSPARC III) I can use to test. I'll try to get to this this weekend. Patrick On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:56 AM, Kirill Tkhai wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a person who has sparc64 machine with NUMA. The patch > below adds > NUMA kernel text replication suppo

[Need HELP!] Please help to test kernel patch (sparc64, NUMA)

2013-12-04 Thread Kirill Tkhai
Hi, I'm looking for a person who has sparc64 machine with NUMA. The patch below adds NUMA kernel text replication support. This should improve sparc64 kernel performance a little bit. I tested it on my machines, and it looks working for me. But they are not standard sun v9. So person with stand