From owner-lockmeter@oss.sgi.com Tue Oct 3 10:50:41 2000 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:50:31 -0700 Received: from pneumatic-tube.sgi.com ([204.94.214.22]:45656 "EHLO pneumatic-tube.sgi.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:50:05 -0700 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by pneumatic-tube.sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980310.SGI-aspam) via ESMTP id KAA09109; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:56:26 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (hawkes@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com) Received: from pchawkes (sshgate.corp.sgi.com [169.238.216.146]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via SMTP id KAA61768; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:49:09 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (hawkes@engr.sgi.com) Message-ID: <00e101c02d61$f6db03c0$6401a8c0@marin1.sfba.home.com> From: "John Hawkes" To: Cc: Subject: Lockmeter 1.4.3 (i386, ia64, alpha, mips64, sparc64) now available Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:47:13 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-lockmeter@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;lockmeter-outgoing Lockmeter version 1.4.3 is now available at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/lockmeter as a patch to the 2.4.0-test8 kernel. This new Lockmeter supports i386, ia64, alpha, mips64, and sparc64. A new lockstat 1.4.2 is also available, although the previous lockstat version 1.4.1 (and 1.4) remain compatible with this latest Lockmeter. The Alpha port is hopefully now working again, thanks to Peter Rival at DEC/Compaq. The ia64 port has been tested as an SMP kernel on a uniprocessor Big Sur and is presumed to support SMP hardware. (My SMP testing will be forthcoming.) To build for ia64, the base 2.4.0-test8 source is first patched by linux-2.4.0-test8-ia64-000913.diff (available officially at http://www.kernel.org and unofficially at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/lockmeter/download), then patched with the basic Lockmeter 1.4.3 patch, then patched yet again by a small Lockmeter 1.4.3 "ia64_0913" patch). The sparc64 additions are courtesy of Anton Blanchard at Linuxcare. The mips64 portion of the patch applies against the CVS kernel source available at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/linux-scalability/ as of October 2, presumptively at 2.4.0-test8-pre1. Work is in progress to further reduce the performance impact of Lockmetering. Other work is in progress to narrow the printf column width of Lockstat. John Hawkes hawkes@engr.sgi.com