Messages in this thread | | | From | Darren Williams <> | Date | Fri, 4 Mar 2005 13:18:47 +1100 | Subject | Re: Page fault scalability patch V18: Overview |
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Hi Christoph
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Is there any chance that this patchset could go into mm now? This has been > discussed since last August.... > > Changelog: > > V17->V18 Rediff against 2.6.11-rc5-bk4
Just applied this patch against 2.6.11, however with the patch applied and all the aditional config options not set, the kernel hangs at Freeing unused kernel memory: 240kB freed FYI:
boot atomic prezero OK on on fail off on fail off off OK on off
> V16->V17 Do not increment page_count in do_wp_page. Performance data > posted. > V15->V16 of this patch: Redesign to allow full backback > for architectures that do not supporting atomic operations. > > An introduction to what this patch does and a patch archive can be found on > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/page_fault_performance. The archive also has the > result of various performance tests (LMBench, Microbenchmark and > kernel compiles). > > The basic approach in this patchset is the same as used in SGI's 2.4.X > based kernels which have been in production use in ProPack 3 for a long time. > > The patchset is composed of 4 patches (and was tested against 2.6.11-rc5-bk4): > [SNIP]
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