Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Mar 2004 17:27:52 +1100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [2.4] heavy-load under swap space shortage |
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> >I argue those scalability benefits of the locks, on a 32G machine or on >a 1G machine those locks benefits are near zero. The only significant >benefit is in terms of computational complexity of the normal-zone >allocations, where we'll only walk on the zone-normal and zone-dma >pages. > >
Out of interest, are there workloads on 8 and 16-way UMA systems that have lru_lock scalability problems in 2.6? Anyone know?
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