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SubjectRe: [RFC] how do we move the VM forward? (was Re: [RFC] cleanup ofuse-once)


--On Friday, May 20, 2005 20:16:06 +0200 Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote:

> On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 05:51:43PM -0700, David Lang wrote:
>> On Wed, 4 May 2005, Nick Piggin wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Also having a box or two for running regression and stress
>> > testing is a must. I can do a bit here, but unfortunately
>> > "kernel compiles until it hurts" is probably not the best
>> > workload to target.
>
> if there are some tests or output (kernel logs, etc)
> or proc info or vmstat or whatever, which doesn't take
> 100% cpu time, I'm able and willing to test it on different
> workloads (including compiling the kernel until it hurts ;)

I did take that patch and run a bunch of tests on it across a few
different architectures. everything worked fine, no perf differnences
either way ... but then I may not have actually put it under memory
pressure, so it might not be ideal testing ;-)

M.

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