Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753007Ab2HOKmI (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:42:08 -0400 Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:22391 "EHLO rcsinet15.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751877Ab2HOKmG (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:42:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:38:28 -0400 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk To: Seth Jennings Cc: Dan Magenheimer , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andrew Morton , Nitin Gupta , Minchan Kim , Robert Jennings , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Kurt Hackel Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] promote zcache from staging Message-ID: <20120815093828.GB2865@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <1343413117-1989-1-git-send-email-sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <5021795A.5000509@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <5024067F.3010602@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <2e9ccb4f-1339-4c26-88dd-ea294b022127@default> <50254F69.2000409@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50254F69.2000409@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1062 Lines: 23 On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 01:14:01PM -0500, Seth Jennings wrote: > On 08/09/2012 03:20 PM, Dan Magenheimer wrote > > I also wonder if you have anything else unusual in your > > test setup, such as a fast swap disk (mine is a partition > > on the same rotating disk as source and target of the kernel build, > > the default install for a RHEL6 system)? > > I'm using a normal SATA HDD with two partitions, one for > swap and the other an ext3 filesystem with the kernel source. > > > Or have you disabled cleancache? > > Yes, I _did_ disable cleancache. I could see where having > cleancache enabled could explain the difference in results. Why did you disable the cleancache? Having both (cleancache to compress fs data) and frontswap (to compress swap data) is the goal - while you turned one of its sources off. -- 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/