Re: page fault scalability patch V12 [0/7]: Overview and performance

Linus Torvalds
2004-12-02T00:10:18Z

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> Changes from V11->V12 of this patch:
> - dump sloppy_rss in favor of list_rss (Linus' proposal)
> - keep up against current Linus tree (patch is based on 2.6.10-rc2-bk14)
>
> This is a series of patches that increases the scalability of
> the page fault handler for SMP. Here are some performance results
> on a machine with 512 processors allocating 32 GB with an increasing
> number of threads (that are assigned a processor each).

Ok, consider me convinced. I don't want to apply this before I get 2.6.10
out the door, but I'm happy with it. I assume Andrew has already picked up
the previous version.

Linus