Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 14 Sep 2002 21:12:25 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.34-mm2 |
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Daniel Phillips wrote: > > On Thursday 12 September 2002 08:29, Andrew Morton wrote: > > url: http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.34/2.5.34-mm2/ > > > > -sleeping-release_page.patch > > What's this one? Couldn't find it as a broken-out patch.
The `-' means it was removed from the patchset. Linus merged it. See 2.5.34/2.5.34-mm1/broken-out/sleeping-release_page.patch
> On the nonblocking vm front, does it rule or suck?
It rules, until someone finds something at which it sucks.
> I heard you > mention, on the one hand, huge speedups on some load (dbench I think) > but your in-patch comments mention slowdown by 1.7X on kernel > compile.
You misread. Relative times for running `make -j6 bzImage' with mem=512m:
Unloaded system: 1.0 2.5.34-mm4, while running 4 x `dbench 100' 1.7 Any other kernel while running 4 x `dbench 100' basically infinity - 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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