Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262093AbVCDDEQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:04:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262781AbVCDDEA (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:04:00 -0500 Received: from note.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU ([129.94.242.24]:40869 "EHLO note.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262093AbVCDCrO (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 21:47:14 -0500 From: Darren Williams To: Christoph Lameter , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 13:47:04 +1100 Subject: Re: Page fault scalability patch V18: Overview Message-ID: <20050304024704.GG28102@cse.unsw.EDU.AU> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Lameter , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org References: <20050304021847.GF28102@cse.unsw.EDU.AU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050304021847.GF28102@cse.unsw.EDU.AU> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2512 Lines: 69 Hi Darren On Fri, 04 Mar 2005, Darren Williams wrote: > Hi Christoph > > On Tue, 01 Mar 2005, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > Is there any chance that this patchset could go into mm now? This has been > > discussed since last August.... > > > > Changelog: > > > > V17->V18 Rediff against 2.6.11-rc5-bk4 > > Just applied this patch against 2.6.11, however with the patch applied > and all the aditional config options not set, the kernel hangs at > Freeing unused kernel memory: 240kB freed > FYI: > > boot atomic prezero > OK on on > fail off on > fail off off > OK on off A bit extra info on the system: HP rx8620 Itanium(R) 2 16way > > > V16->V17 Do not increment page_count in do_wp_page. Performance data > > posted. > > V15->V16 of this patch: Redesign to allow full backback > > for architectures that do not supporting atomic operations. > > > > An introduction to what this patch does and a patch archive can be found on > > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/page_fault_performance. The archive also has the > > result of various performance tests (LMBench, Microbenchmark and > > kernel compiles). > > > > The basic approach in this patchset is the same as used in SGI's 2.4.X > > based kernels which have been in production use in ProPack 3 for a long time. > > > > The patchset is composed of 4 patches (and was tested against 2.6.11-rc5-bk4): > > > [SNIP] > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -------------------------------------------------- > Darren Williams > Gelato@UNSW > -------------------------------------------------- > - > 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/ -------------------------------------------------- Darren Williams Gelato@UNSW -------------------------------------------------- - 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/