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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
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>> It actually seems a fraction slower (see systimes for Kernbench-16,
>> for instance).
> 
> Can you play a bit with the hash table sizes? Perhaps double the 
> dcache hash and half the inode hash ?

I quadrupled the dcache hash size ... helped a bit. Is still a little
slower, which I don't understand ... your plan should make it go faster,
AFAICS. Those off-node accesses to ZONE_NORMAL are really expensive for me.

Kernbench-2: (make -j N vmlinux, where N = 2 x num_cpus)
                              Elapsed        User      System         CPU
              2.5.62-mjb3       44.24      558.12       94.17     1473.83
         2.5.62-mjb3-andi       44.28      557.90       95.79     1475.67
      2.5.62-mjb3-andi-4x       44.20      557.96       94.77     1475.83

Kernbench-16: (make -j N vmlinux, where N = 16 x num_cpus)
                              Elapsed        User      System         CPU
              2.5.62-mjb3       45.19      560.95      114.77     1495.00
         2.5.62-mjb3-andi       45.39      561.29      117.73     1495.67
      2.5.62-mjb3-andi-4x       45.34      560.54      116.85     1493.50

> I suspect it really just needs a better hash function. I'll cook
> something up based on FNV hash.

Sounds good ;-)

M.

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