Martin Pieuchot: > Diff below remove the KERNEL_LOCK()/UNLOCK() dance from uvm_fault() for > both amd64 and sparc64. That means the kernel lock will only be taken > for lower faults and some amap/anon code will now run without it. > > I'd be interested to have this tested and see how much does that impact > the build time of packages.
I ran an amd64 bulk build with this diff on top of 6.9. That succeeded. No crashes, no ill effects. The impact on the build time was neglibible. From 24 hours 20-something minutes down to 24 hours 12 minutes (1 sample). -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
