Re: [PATCH] shrink struct page for 2.5

[Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 06:15:03PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I've forward-ported a small part of the -rmap patch to 2.5,
 > the shrinkage of the struct page. Most of this code is from
 > William Irwin and Christoph Hellwig.

 Anton Blanchard did some nice benchmarks of this work a while
 ago, and noticed that with one of the features (I think the
 I forget which its in the l-k archives somewhere) there
 seemed to be a noticable performance degradation.
 Of course, this was a dbench test, so how reflective this is
 of real world is another story..

 Maybe Randy Hron can throw it in with the next round of
 kernel tests he does ?

 > Unfortunately I haven't managed to make 2.5.5-pre2 to boot on
 > my machine, so I haven't been able to test this port of the
 > patch to 2.5.

 Just a complete lock up ? oops ? anything ?

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