Re: Linux-2.1.129..

Jeremy Katz (katzj@shells.technojunkie.com)
Thu, 19 Nov 1998 15:45:21 -0700 (MST)

On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> >
> > I'm still working on getting the patch, but does it fix the "UP flu" that
> > those of us not blessed with multi-processor machines have been seeing
> > since 127-pre7? Unless I missed a message here, I thought the problem was
> > still unresolved. This is one of the things which definitely needs to be
> > fixed before 2.2 (so you're not just a chicken ;) or the outcry will be
> > amazing...
>
> Nope, the UP flu should be fixed by the separate patch I posted earlier
> (and here it is for your edification again). Please tell me whether it
> really does fix the problems you've seen..

Looks good so far to me... I've run all the tests which have been posted
thus far without any problems; the recently posted fast.c got to around
24000 interations instead of the 6800 it got under 2.1.128.

On another note, matroxfb on i386 is nice :) Much faster than vesafb.

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