From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:10:18 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: page fault scalability patch V12 [0/7]: Overview and performance tests In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Hugh Dickins , akpm@osdl.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Nick Piggin , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Changes from V11->V12 of this patch: > - dump sloppy_rss in favor of list_rss (Linus' proposal) > - keep up against current Linus tree (patch is based on 2.6.10-rc2-bk14) > > This is a series of patches that increases the scalability of > the page fault handler for SMP. Here are some performance results > on a machine with 512 processors allocating 32 GB with an increasing > number of threads (that are assigned a processor each). Ok, consider me convinced. I don't want to apply this before I get 2.6.10 out the door, but I'm happy with it. I assume Andrew has already picked up the previous version. Linus -- 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