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From: Zlatko Calusic <zlatko@iskon.hr>
To: Vlad Bolkhovitine <vladb@sw.com.sg>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: mmap()/VM problems in 2.4.0
Date: 15 Jan 2001 21:31:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hf30d0ar.fsf@atlas.iskon.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Vlad Bolkhovitine"'s message of "Mon, 15 Jan 2001 17:42:08 +0800"

"Vlad Bolkhovitine" <vladb@sw.com.sg> writes:

> Here is updated info for 2.4.1pre3:
> 
> Size is MB, BlkSz is Bytes, Read, Write, and Seeks are MB/sec
> 
> with mmap()
> 
>  File   Block  Num          Seq Read    Rand Read   Seq Write  Rand Write
>  Dir    Size   Size    Thr Rate (CPU%) Rate (CPU%) Rate (CPU%) Rate (CPU%)
> ------- ------ ------- --- ----------- ----------- ----------- -----------
>    .     1024   4096    2  1.089 1.24% 0.235 0.45% 1.118 4.11% 0.616 1.41%
> 
> without mmap()
>    
>  File   Block  Num          Seq Read    Rand Read   Seq Write  Rand Write
>  Dir    Size   Size    Thr Rate (CPU%) Rate (CPU%) Rate (CPU%) Rate (CPU%)
> ------- ------ ------- --- ----------- ----------- ----------- -----------
>    .     1024   4096    2  28.41 41.0% 0.547 1.15% 13.16 16.1% 0.652 1.46%
> 
> 
> Mmap() performance dropped dramatically down to almost unusable level. Plus,
> system was unusable during test: "vmstat 1" updated results every 1-2 _MINUTES_!
> 

You need Marcelo's patch. Please apply and retest.



--- linux.orig/mm/vmscan.c      Mon Jan 15 02:33:15 2001
+++ linux/mm/vmscan.c   Mon Jan 15 02:46:25 2001
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@

                        if (VALID_PAGE(page) && !PageReserved(page)) {
                                try_to_swap_out(mm, vma, address, pte,
page);
-                               if (--count)
+                               if (!--count)
                                        break;
                        }
                }


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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-15 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3A5EFB40.6080B6F3@sw.com.sg>
2001-01-15  9:42 ` Vlad Bolkhovitine
2001-01-15 20:31   ` Zlatko Calusic [this message]
2001-01-15 20:49     ` Mike Galbraith
2001-01-16  6:43       ` Vlad Bolkhovitine
2001-01-16  7:06         ` Mike Galbraith

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