Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 May 2005 14:24:27 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] how do we move the VM forward? (was Re: [RFC] cleanup ofuse-once) |
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--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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