2.3.99-pre8 performance on i386 sucks, too

["John Hawkes" <hawkes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The good news is that 2.3.99-pre8 AIM7 performance on i386 SMP is just
as awful as mips64 SMP.  Maybe even worse.  My "modified AIM7" workload
that previously on i386 (2.3.99-pre2) would run compute-bound (25% user,
75% system), now on 2.3.99-pre8 runs 95+% idle.  And on one i386 run it
even fails with a "Cannot allocate memory" error.

I think the mips64 CVS tree needs to move forward to 2.4.something ASAP,
as soon as someone can confirm that 2.4.something performs better than
2.3.99-pre8.

John Hawkes