Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [with-PATCH-really] highmem deadlock removal, balancing & cleanup | Date | Sat, 26 May 2001 00:13:13 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> On Fri, 25 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 25 May 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > > > OK, shoot me. Here it is again, this time _with_ patch... > > > > I'm not going to apply this as long as it plays experimental games with > > "shrink_icache()" and friends. I haven't seen anybody comment on the > > performance on this, > > Yeah, I guess the way Linux 2.2 balances things is way too > experimental ;)
Compared to the 2.0 performance - yes. 2.0 is faster than 2.2 is twice the speed of 2.4 starting X and the session apps on my MediaGX box with 64Mb
But Linus is right I think - VM changes often prove 'interesting'. Test it in -ac , gets some figures for real world use then plan further
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