Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261205AbUDGWnF (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 18:43:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261231AbUDGWnF (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 18:43:05 -0400 Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.105]:34044 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261205AbUDGWnD (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 18:43:03 -0400 Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 15:54:27 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Andrea Arcangeli , Ingo Molnar cc: Eric Whiting , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pete Zaitcev Subject: Re: -mmX 4G patches feedback [numbers: how much performance impact] Message-ID: <10680000.1081378467@flay> In-Reply-To: <20040406175722.GE2234@dualathlon.random> References: <40718B2A.967D9467@amis.com> <20040405174616.GH2234@dualathlon.random> <4071D11B.1FEFD20A@amis.com> <20040405221641.GN2234@dualathlon.random> <20040406115539.GA31465@elte.hu> <20040406155925.GW2234@dualathlon.random> <20040406172431.GA9185@elte.hu> <20040406175722.GE2234@dualathlon.random> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.2 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 768 Lines: 18 >> is on you. And if you think i'm upset about your approach to this whole >> issue then you are damn right.) > > the one upset should be the users running 30% slower with stuff like > mysql just because they own a 4/8G box. There's little interest from my > part to spend time on 4:4 stuff when things are so obvious (I want > however to try to benchmark the HZ=1000 with the hint). Isn't that scenario fixed up by vsyscall gettimeofday already? Or was this another workload, where gettimeofday wasn't the problem? M. - 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/