From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 22:46:03 +0000 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Subject: Re: [PATCH] page coloring for 2.4.17 kernel Message-ID: <20020114224603.N5057@redhat.com> References: <3.0.6.32.20020113204610.007c7a60@boo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jason Papadopoulos Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- 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/