Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262041AbVDFAgy (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 20:36:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262046AbVDFAgy (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 20:36:54 -0400 Received: from omx3-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.20]:21638 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262041AbVDFAgv (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 20:36:51 -0400 Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 17:33:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter To: davidm@hpl.hp.com cc: Andi Kleen , Christoph Lameter , Denis Vlasenko , Dave Hansen , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Mel Gorman , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Jens.Maurer@gmx.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher order In-Reply-To: <16979.11287.36091.610287@napali.hpl.hp.com> Message-ID: References: <200503111008.12134.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <200503181154.37414.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <20050318192808.GB38053@muc.de> <16963.2075.713737.485070@napali.hpl.hp.com> <16979.11287.36091.610287@napali.hpl.hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 659 Lines: 17 On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, David Mosberger wrote: > What LMbench test other than fork/exec would you have expected to be > affected by this? LMbench is not a good benchmark for this (remember: > it's a _micro_ benchmark). LMbench does a variety of things and I expected to see at least something on the page fault test and hopefully also some variations for other tests. Which benchmark would you recommend for this? - 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/