From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:55:35 -0800 (PST) > So try to figure out why his (better) profile doesn't match your > (inferior) one, instead of asking him to do stupid things. It's some > difference in architectures, likely: maybe the sparc timekeeping is crap, > maybe it's a cache issue and sparc caches are crap, maybe it's something > where Niagara (is it niagara) has some oddness that shows up because it > has that odd four-threads+four-cores or whatever. It's on my workstation which is a much simpler 2 processor UltraSPARC-IIIi (1.5Ghz) system. And yes I will investigate, it's all I've been doing in my spare time these past few weeks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html