From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39740568.FAD721A2@norran.net> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:21:12 +0200 From: Roger Larsson MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] test5-pre1 vmfix (rev 8) References: <3973AF65.F3372E@norran.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" List-ID: Hi again, Correction: I had forgot to start a background task during testing: * Throuput gets up to 2% to 10% better for my tests. /RogerL Roger Larsson wrote: > > Hi, > > Since I am responsible for messing up some aspects of vm > (when fixing others) > here is a patch that tries to solve the introduced problems. > > * no more periodic wake up of kswapd - not needed anymore > * no more freeing all zones to (free_pages > pages_high) > * always wakes kswapd up after try_to_free_pages > * kswapd starts when all zones gets zone_wake_kswapd > (runs once for each zone that hits zone_wake_kswapd) > * removed test for more than pages_high in alloc_pages, > zones will mostly be in the range [pages_high...pages_low] > * I get 10% better throughput than 2.4.0-test4, YMMV > > Note: logic of function keep_kswapd_awake has changed. > > /RogerL > > -- > Home page: > http://www.norran.net/nra02596/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Name: patch-2.4.0-test5-1-vmfix.8 > patch-2.4.0-test5-1-vmfix.8 Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > Encoding: 7bit -- Home page: http://www.norran.net/nra02596/ -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/