From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 13:03:14 +1000 From: Daniel Stone Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.6-pre2 page_launder() improvements Message-ID: <20010611130314.B964@kabuki.openfridge.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 01:40:44AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > [Request For Testers ... patch below] > > Hi, > > during my holidays I've written the following patch (forward-ported > to 2.4.6-pre2 and improved a tad today), which implements these > improvements to page_launder(): > > YMMV, please test it. If it works great for everybody I'd like > to get this improvement merged into the next -pre kernel. I forgot about vmstat, but this is -ac12, anecdotal evidence - my system (weak) performs far better under heavy load (mpg123 nice'd to -20 + apt/dpkg + gcc), than with vanilla -ac12. To get it to compile on -ac, just hand-hack in the patch, and s/CAN_GET_IO/can_get_io_locks/ in vmscan.c. :) d -- Daniel Stone -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/