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Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:07:47 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Steve Modica <modica@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: simple mod_timer patch
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Steve Modica <modica@sgi.com> wrote:
>
> I pulled this back from the 2.6 kernel to reduce some serious contention on the 
> timerlist_lock when I had 8 gigabit cards runnings.
> 

By how much did it reduce contention?