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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:18:50 +0100
From: Martin Knoblauch <Martin.Knoblauch@TeraPort.de>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.19-preX: What we really need: -AA patches finally in thetree
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> Re: 2.4.19-preX: What we really need: -AA patches finally in the tree
> 
> From: Martin J. Bligh (Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com)
> Date: Mon Feb 25 2002 - 20:32:06 EST
> 
> > Not to begin the flamewar, but no thanks. rmap-12f blows -aa away AFAIK
> > on this P200 w/ 64MB ram.
> 
> rmap still sucks on large systems though. I'd love to see rmap
> in the main kernel, but it needs to get the scalability fixed first.
> The main problem seems to be pagemap_lru_lock ... Rik & crew
> know about this problem, but let's give them some time to fix it
> before rmap gets put into mainline ....
> 
> Martin.
> 
Martin,

 just out of curiosity: where does "large systems" start in your
context?

Martin
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