Re: [PATCH] New: AMD K6 write allocate

Rene Janssen (rjanssen@ns.oke.nl)
Mon, 18 Jan 1999 10:36:48 +0100

At 07:31 PM 1/17/99 +0300, Alexey Vyskubov wrote:
>Hello.
>
>> Do not forget to substitute your RAM size in
>>#define WRITE_ALLOCATE_LIMIT
>
>Thanks to Alan Cox's hint - there is no need for manual tuning now.
>
>Attached [new] version of patch (against 2.2.0pre7) should enable write
>allocate for AMD K6 model 6/7 processors. On my system it gives 5-7%
>increase in speed.
>

Could you show some lmbench results for this patch? I checked a similar
patch (loadable module) , but lmbench didnt notice much improvement. Is it
really that much ?

Thanks,

René

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