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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:54:17 +1100
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Subject: Re: Linus rollup
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> I've sifted out all the things which I intend to send to the boss soon.  It
> would be good if you could perform some quick non-ia32 testing please.
> 
> Possible breakage would be in the new frlock-for-xtime_lock code and the
> get_order() cleanup.
> 
> The frlock code is showing nice speedups, but I think the main reason we want
> this is to fix the problem wherein an application spinning on gettimeofday()
> can make time stop.

Checks out OK on ppc64 bar some problems with the get_order patch.
(should include linux/bitops.h instead of asm/bitops.h).

It passed some stress tests (sdet, tpc-h)

Anton
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