From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4010CA48.3000105@cyberone.com.au> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 18:16:24 +1100 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [BENCHMARKS] Namesys VM patches improve kbuild References: <400F630F.80205@cyberone.com.au> <20040121223608.1ea30097.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040121223608.1ea30097.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Nikita@Namesys.COM List-ID: Andrew Morton wrote: > >Yes, I do think that the "LRU" is a bit of a misnomer - it's very >approximate and only really suits simple workloads. I suspect that once >things get hot and heavy the "lru" is only four-deep: >unreferenced/inactive, referenced/inactive, unreferenced/active and >referenced/active. > >Can you test the patches separately, see what bits are actually helping? > OK, sorry for the delay. http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/vm/namesys.png The LRU patch is the one that does it. -- 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/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org