Re: [PATCH] spinlock metering (2.3.42)

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Peter Rival wrote:
> 
> Not to ask a stupid question, but what type of "real-world usage" would you
> like to see?  I did most of the Alpha work (yes John I still owe you an
> update - in your inbox by end of the day) so I have scads of example outputs
> under various loads, but almost all of them are benchmark-driven.  If there
> is anything of that ilk that would be remotely interesting to you, let me
> know and I'll send you what I have (or generate a new one).

Benchmark-driven is fine, if the benchmark is meaningful. Specweb or
similar would be fascinating, as would lmbench or the SAP or Oracle load
benchmarks.

I'm just interested in an idea of what kind of information you've
gathered, not in any absolute numbers per se. 

                Linus