Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Dec 2009 12:46:24 -0600 (CST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: don't use vmalloc_end |
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On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Mike Travis wrote:
> > Boot with 2.6.32 and see if the per cpu allocator works. Check if there > > are any changes to memory consumption. Create a few thousand virtual > > ethernet devices and see if the system keels over. > > Any advice on how to go about the above would be helpful... ;-)
I believe you can create an additional alias device with
ifconfig eth0:<N>
or so.
> I'm doing some aim7/9 comparisons right now between SPARSE and DISCONTIG > memory configs using sles11 + 2.6.32. Which other benchmarks would you > recommend for the other tests?
See f.e. http://kernel-perf.sourceforge.net/about_tests.php
lmbench?
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