2.57328
Select on 10 fd's:           0.8554      0.8457  -1.133    0.8667 1.32101
Select on 100 fd's:          3.5292      3.6329  2.9383    3.6664 3.88756
Select on 250 fd's:          7.9097      8.1881  3.5197    8.2242 3.97613
Select on 500 fd's:          15.2659     15.836  3.7357    15.873 3.97814
Select on 10 tcp fd's:       0.9576      0.9416  -1.670    0.9752 1.83792
Select on 100 tcp fd's:      7.248       7.2254  -0.311    7.2685 0.28283
Select on 250 tcp fd's:      17.7742     17.707  -0.375    17.749 -0.1406
Select on 500 tcp fd's:      35.4258     35.25   -0.496    35.286 -0.3929
Signal handler installation: 0.6131      0.6075  -0.913    0.647  5.52927
Signal handler overhead:     2.0919      2.1078  0.7600    2.1831 4.35967
Protection fault:            0.7345      0.7478  1.8107    0.8031 9.33968
Pipe latency:                33.006      16.398  -50.31    33.475 1.42368
AF_UNIX sock stream latency: 14.5093     30.910  113.03    30.715 111.692
Process fork+exit:           219.8       222.8   1.3648    229.37 4.35623
Process fork+execve:         876.14      873.28  -0.32     868.66 -0.8533
Process fork+/bin/sh -c:     2830        2876.5  1.6431    2958   4.52296
File /var/tmp/XXX write bw:  1193497     1195536 0.1708    118657 -0.5799
Pagefaults on /var/tmp/XXX:  3.1272      3.2117  2.7020    3.2521 3.99398

Also, kernel compile times show no difference with this patch applied.

[pbadari@us.ibm.com: Avoid unnecessary PURR reading]
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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