On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Atsushi Onoe wrote:

> > I tried to make a GENERIC3X kernel on both kernels which use
> > malloc/free and pool_get/pool_put:
> > 
> > malloc: 22796.7u 1418.7s 6:59:10.62 96.2% 0.0k 47761+18193io 553pf+0w
> > pool:   22795.9u 1414.8s 6:59:03.73 96.2% 0.0k 47603+18189io 610pf+0w
> > 
> > The difference is not so significant (sun3 is too slow to see it? :-),
> > but I will commit this change anyway.
> 
> I think we should use generic malloc instead of pool_get _hack_ if the
> difference between two is so insignificant.

I doubt that gcc is appropriate benchmark for VM system. That way you
might not see the differences between OSes at all.

--
	Andrey