From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 21:23:27 +0100 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH] shrink struct page for 2.5 Message-ID: <20020216212327.C4777@suse.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 06:15:03PM -0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 ? -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs -- 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/