Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 May 2009 16:26:50 -0400 (EDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm] vmscan: protect a fraction of file backed mapped pages from reclaim |
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On Tue, 12 May 2009, Rik van Riel wrote:
> How many do you want before you're satisfied that this > benefits a significant number of workloads?
One would be a good starter.
> How many numbers do you want to feel safe that no workloads > suffer badly from this patch? > > Also, wow would you measure a concept as nebulous as desktop > interactivity?
Measure the response to desktop clicks? I.e. retrieve an URL with a webbrowser that was running when the other load started.
> Btw, the patch has gone into the Fedora kernel RPM to get > a good amount of user testing. I'll let you know what the > users say (if anything).
I have not seen a single reference to a measurement taken with this patch.
Maybe that is because I have not looked at the threads that discuss measurements with this patch. Where are they?
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