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SubjectRe: 2.6.4-rc1-mm1


Nick Piggin wrote:

>
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>> One point I would make is that if a workload is only achieving 5% CPU
>> anyway, we shouldn't optimise for it. Sure, it's nice to be able to
>> get it
>> up to 7% but it is much more important to get the 50% CPU workload up to
>> 70%. The 5% problem is a fiscal one, not an engineering one ;)
>>
>
> I agree. I'm much more interested in getting light and medium swapping
> working better.
>

Just so I'm not misunderstood, I must add that I found Nikita's
patch to definitely help light and medium swapping kbuild runs.
The fact that it *really* helped heavy swapping is a bonus.

But I agree that we need more meaningful tests too. Maybe things
like overloading apache or a mail or database server might be
interesting.

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