From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from digeo-nav01.digeo.com (digeo-nav01.digeo.com [192.168.1.233]) by packet.digeo.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA13716 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 20:56:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D8408A9.7B34483D@digeo.com> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 21:12:25 -0700 From: Andrew Morton MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: 2.5.34-mm2 References: <3D803434.F2A58357@digeo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Daniel Phillips Cc: lkml , "linux-mm@kvack.org" List-ID: Daniel Phillips wrote: > > On Thursday 12 September 2002 08:29, Andrew Morton wrote: > > url: http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.34/2.5.34-mm2/ > > > > -sleeping-release_page.patch > > What's this one? Couldn't find it as a broken-out patch. The `-' means it was removed from the patchset. Linus merged it. See 2.5.34/2.5.34-mm1/broken-out/sleeping-release_page.patch > On the nonblocking vm front, does it rule or suck? It rules, until someone finds something at which it sucks. > I heard you > mention, on the one hand, huge speedups on some load (dbench I think) > but your in-patch comments mention slowdown by 1.7X on kernel > compile. You misread. Relative times for running `make -j6 bzImage' with mem=512m: Unloaded system: 1.0 2.5.34-mm4, while running 4 x `dbench 100' 1.7 Any other kernel while running 4 x `dbench 100' basically infinity -- 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/