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Andi Kleen wrote: > richard kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> writes: >> This is on a standard desktop machine so there are lots of other >> processes running on it, and although there is a degree of variability >> in the numbers,they are very repeatable and your patch always out >> performs the stock mm2. >> looks good to me > > iirc the goal of this is less to get better performance, but to avoid long user visible > latencies. Of course if it's faster it's great too, but that's only secondary. > What a trade-off, if you want to get rid of long latency you have to live with better throughput. I can live with that. ;-) Your point well taken, not the intent of the patch, but it may indicate where a performance bottleneck happens as well. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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