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On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, David S. Miller wrote: > If this is truly idle time in which zerod is running, and as you > mention you have the 256byte caches, anyone doing quick sleeps and the > processing for the device driver performing the "event" it is waiting > for is going to blow the tasks resident set anyways (I see this on > MicroSparc's with 4k data caches as well, any sleep loses your > resident set in the cache completely no matter how small the data > being touched by the processing is for the sleep nor how short the > time you go to sleep is) > A little question, that is related to this topic: How do I benchmark the kernel, i.e. the effects of the zerod-patch ? Should people check the effects of the patch on different systems (i3/4/586, sparc, m68 ...) ? > David S. Miller, davem@caip.rutgers.edu /_____________/ / // /_/ >< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Sebastian Benoit Save the planet ! - benoit@mathematik.uni-marburg.de - Benoit@Stud-Mailer.uni-marburg.de - http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~benoit | ||||||||||||
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