Re: Linux v2.5.42

Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Sun, 13 Oct 2002 12:59:07 -0700


Mark Hahn wrote:
>
> I'm bothered by other IBM influences, such as their fixation with
> performance of broken platforms like Profusion, or tuning for NUMA.

Actually it's rather useful to have these platforms around. Because
if you fix a problem on profusion and NUMA-Q, it's really, really fixed
for other hardware...

They show up races and lock contention like crazy.
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