Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Combined performance patches update for 2.4.19 | Date | Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:48:18 -0700 | From | Cliff White <> |
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> From: conman@kolivas.net > Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 22:21:37 +1000 > > > > > > BTW, thank you for your great work!! > > > > > > > > My pleasure, but really the hard work is done by the developers! > > > Sure, but your "performance" approach is really intersting! Do you use a > > > benchmark? > > > > I don't really have the time to benchmark these things any more than "it feels > > faster". Really I'm spending way too much time on this as it is and I'm not > > remotely any authority on what benchmarks to use. > Maybe I can find the time to run a few tests, can anyone suggest me an "intersting" test?
Not to toot our own horn too much, but.. We keep all the interestings tests we can find at: http://www.osdl.org/stp. The big list is at: http://www.osdl.org/cgi-bin/eidetic.cgi?command=display&mod ulename=tests Plus you can become an associate, and get some time on hardware! cliffw > > > > > > > I'm also testing the compressed cache (the > > > > > patch you've discarded, and I got good performance!) > > > > > > > > I'm thinking of eventually merging the latest version of this into 2.4.19 > > > too > > > > since it can be enabled or disabled. Depends on the demand. > > > Just an hint ('cause I made some of the test you can see on the compressed > > > cache web page on sourceforge), > > > if you use that patch boot your box with the > > > compressed=XXM in order to set the amount of the compressed cache. My box > > > runs fast and happy with 32MiB or 64MiB of compressed cache. My box has > > > 256MiB of Ram. > > > > Ok thanks for the info. I believe the newer cc patch (not in my 2.4.18-ck4) is > > better anyway. I'm afraid the cc will be later in the piece assuming I can kill > > off the other bug I've created in the merge. I'd prefer to see a cc patch > > specifically for 2.4.19 as forward porting it to .19 and then to O(1) (and so > > on) are just too many steps. > Fair enough. > I think that soon we'll see the cc path for the 2.4.19, Rodrigo? > > Ciao, > Paolo > -- > Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org > > > Powered by Outblaze > - > 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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