From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <401EDAA5.7020802@cyberone.com.au> Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 10:17:57 +1100 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: VM benchmarks References: <401D8D64.8010605@cyberone.com.au> <20040201160818.1499be18.akpm@osdl.org> <401D95C2.3080208@cyberone.com.au> <20040202165044.GA8156@k3.hellgate.ch> In-Reply-To: <20040202165044.GA8156@k3.hellgate.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Roger Luethi Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Roger Luethi wrote: >On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 11:11:46 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>efax is a compilation as well. I would be up for trying it, but it >> > >The main advantage of efax over kbuild is that it is completely immune >to unfairness. And it used to have a low variance (in 2.4). Other than >that, access patterns are similar enough to make me suspect that gcc >loads are all quite similar. > > >>needs quite a lot of GUI dev libraries installed to compile it. >> >>I'll get onto it sometime I suppose, but for now I'll try to leave >>my test box unchanged. >> > >You can actually do something like which shouldn't require the >dependencies on the test box: > >/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.3/cc1plus -fpreprocessed efaxi586.ii \ >-quiet -O2 -Wall -fexceptions -frtti -fsigned-char -fno-check-new -o main.s > > Could you zip up the preprocessed file and send it to me if possible please? (off list of course) >All you need is the preprocessed code. > > >I can test a couple of patches I you care, though. Which ones? > > I have 3 patches here http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/vm/ that should apply in order. If you apply to the -mm tree, please back out the rss limit patch first. If you can test them it would be good. I would be interested in soon looking at some of your patches in combination with these. Nick -- 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