From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7D106B00A3 for ; Tue, 12 May 2009 16:27:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (smtp.ultrahosting.com [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ultrahosting.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD27282CC36 for ; Tue, 12 May 2009 16:40:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp.ultrahosting.com ([74.213.175.254]) by localhost (smtp.ultrahosting.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id xhRptI8mo2OJ for ; Tue, 12 May 2009 16:40:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from qirst.com (unknown [74.213.171.31]) by smtp.ultrahosting.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0EF982CC70 for ; Tue, 12 May 2009 16:40:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 16:26:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] vmscan: protect a fraction of file backed mapped pages from reclaim In-Reply-To: <4A09D957.2070908@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <20090508125859.210a2a25.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090512025246.GC7518@localhost> <20090512120002.D616.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <4A09AC91.4060506@redhat.com> <4A09B46D.9010705@redhat.com> <4A09D957.2070908@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Rik van Riel Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro , Wu Fengguang , Andrew Morton , "hannes@cmpxchg.org" , "peterz@infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "tytso@mit.edu" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "elladan@eskimo.com" , "npiggin@suse.de" , "minchan.kim@gmail.com" List-ID: On Tue, 12 May 2009, Rik van Riel wrote: > How many do you want before you're satisfied that this > benefits a significant number of workloads? One would be a good starter. > How many numbers do you want to feel safe that no workloads > suffer badly from this patch? > > Also, wow would you measure a concept as nebulous as desktop > interactivity? Measure the response to desktop clicks? I.e. retrieve an URL with a webbrowser that was running when the other load started. > Btw, the patch has gone into the Fedora kernel RPM to get > a good amount of user testing. I'll let you know what the > users say (if anything). I have not seen a single reference to a measurement taken with this patch. Maybe that is because I have not looked at the threads that discuss measurements with this patch. Where are they? -- 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: email@kvack.org