Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 11 Jan 1997 12:18:17 +0100 (CET) | From | Sebastian Benoit <> | Subject | Re: Since no one else has stepped forward: 'ZeroD' patch |
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On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, David S. Miller wrote:
> If this is truly idle time in which zerod is running, and as you > mention you have the 256byte caches, anyone doing quick sleeps and the > processing for the device driver performing the "event" it is waiting > for is going to blow the tasks resident set anyways (I see this on > MicroSparc's with 4k data caches as well, any sleep loses your > resident set in the cache completely no matter how small the data > being touched by the processing is for the sleep nor how short the > time you go to sleep is) >
A little question, that is related to this topic: How do I benchmark the kernel, i.e. the effects of the zerod-patch ? Should people check the effects of the patch on different systems (i3/4/586, sparc, m68 ...) ?
> David S. Miller, davem@caip.rutgers.edu /_____________/ / // /_/ ><
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