From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Nikita@Namesys.COM
Subject: Re: [BENCHMARKS] Namesys VM patches improve kbuild
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 23:04:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040121230408.7b8b9a92.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <400F738A.40505@cyberone.com.au>
Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote:
>
> By the way, what
> do you think of this? Did I miss something non obvious?
>
> Seems to make little difference on the benchmarks. Without the patch,
> the active list would generally be attacked more aggressively.
>
>
>
> [vm-fix-shrink-zone.patch text/plain (2741 bytes)]
>
> Use the actual number of pages difference when trying to keep the inactive
> list 1/2 the size of the active list (1/3 the size of all pages) instead of
> a meaningless ratio.
Frankly, that `ratio' thing has always hurt my brain, so I left it as-is
from 2.4 because it never caused any obvious problems.
If we can put some clearer rationale behind what we're doing in there then
great.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-22 7:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-22 5:43 Nick Piggin
2004-01-22 6:36 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-22 6:54 ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-22 7:04 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-01-22 7:19 ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-22 8:16 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-01-22 23:32 ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-22 10:35 ` Nikita Danilov
2004-01-22 23:01 ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-23 10:29 ` Nikita Danilov
2004-01-23 12:28 ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-23 15:09 ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-23 15:40 ` Nikita Danilov
2004-01-24 1:07 ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-26 11:19 ` Nikita Danilov
2004-01-26 11:25 ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-26 12:14 ` Nikita Danilov
2004-01-30 3:48 ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-30 3:56 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-30 12:00 ` Nikita Danilov
2004-01-23 7:16 ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-23 9:42 ` Nikita Danilov
2004-01-23 12:15 ` Nick Piggin
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