Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261372AbVBHBEr (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 20:04:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261370AbVBHBEr (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 20:04:47 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:6590 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261368AbVBHBEo (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 20:04:44 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:09:47 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Christoph Lameter Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: prezeroing V6 [2/3]: ScrubD Message-Id: <20050207170947.239f8696.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <1106828124.19262.45.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <20050202153256.GA19615@logos.cnet> <20050207163035.7596e4dd.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-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: 864 Lines: 21 Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > What were the benchmarking results for this work? I think you had some, > > but this is pretty vital info, so it should be retained in the changelogs. > > Look at the early posts. I plan to put that up on the web. I have some > stats attached to the end of this message from an earlier post. But that's a patch-specific microbenchmark, isn't it? Has this work been benchmarked against real-world stuff? > > Should we be managing the kernel threads with the kthread() API? > > What would you like to manage? Startup, perhaps binding the threads to their cpus too. - 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/