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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Jason Papadopoulos <jasonp@boo.net>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] page coloring for 2.4.17 kernel
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 22:46:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020114224603.N5057@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20020113204610.007c7a60@boo.net>; from jasonp@boo.net on Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 08:46:10PM -0500

Hi,

On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 08:46:10PM -0500, Jason Papadopoulos wrote:
> Hello. Please be patient with this, my first post to linux-mm.
> The included patch modifies the free list in the 2.4.17 kernel
> to support round-robin page coloring. It seems to work okay
> on an Alpha and speeds up a lot of number-crunching code I
> have lying around (lmbench reports some higher bandwidths too).
> The patch is a port of the 2.2.20 version that I recently posted
> to the linux kernelmailing list.

Do you have numbers to show the sort of performance difference it
makes?

Cheers,
 Stephen
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-14 22:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-14  1:46 Jason Papadopoulos
2002-01-14 22:46 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2002-01-15  4:55   ` Jason Papadopoulos
2002-01-15 11:22     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-01-15  6:16 Jason Papadopoulos

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