From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from burns.conectiva (burns.conectiva [10.0.0.4]) by perninha.conectiva.com.br (Postfix) with SMTP id BEE063947B for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 13:18:09 -0300 (EST) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 13:17:57 -0300 (BRT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: VolanoMark Benchmark results for 2.5.26, 2.5.26 + rmap, 2.5.35,and 2.5.35 + mm1 In-Reply-To: <3D88A575.D25CE720@austin.ibm.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Bill Hartner Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net List-ID: On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Bill Hartner wrote: > I will baseline on 2.4.19 and run both the 3GB and 4GB VoloanoMark test. > > I will also test with rmap14a. I released rmap14b last night, with an SMP bugfix you'll want to have: http://surriel.com/patches/2.4/2.4.19-rmap14b > I am currently running (a) rawio on scsi devices and (b) direct io on scsi > devices for both read and readv on 2.5.35. For this test, I am using an > 8-way 700 Mhz with (4) IBM 4Mx controllers and 32 disks. Hmmm, with near certainty rmap in 2.4 still has a bunch of SMP inefficiencies that'll slow you down on an 8-way. If these are bothering you I'll do a backport of the 2.5 rmap speedups... regards, Rik -- Spamtrap of the month: september@surriel.com http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ -- 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/