Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270516AbTGaWwO (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 18:52:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270583AbTGaWwO (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 18:52:14 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:62168 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270516AbTGaWwK (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 18:52:10 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:40:20 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: mbligh@aracnet.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Panic on 2.6.0-test1-mm1 Message-Id: <20030731154020.61e15723.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20030731224148.GJ15452@holomorphy.com> References: <5110000.1059489420@[10.10.2.4]> <20030731223710.GI15452@holomorphy.com> <20030731224148.GJ15452@holomorphy.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 723 Lines: 18 William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > You may now put the "aggravated" magnet beneath the "wli" position on > the fridge. I never, ever, at any stage was told that highpmd.patch offered any benefits wrt lock contention or node locality. I was only told that it saved a little bit of memory on highmem boxes. It would be useful to actually tell me what your patches do. And to provide test results which demonstrate the magnitude of the performance benefits. - 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/