Re: [PATCH] Optimize out pte_chain take three

Rik van Riel
2002-07-10T20:38:42Z

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:

> How do the BSD and proprietary kernel developers evaluate
> their VMs?

Proper statistics inside their VM, combined with some
basic workload testing.

Most importantly, they don't seem to hang themselves
on benchmarks. Benchmarks can be won by finetuning
whatever you have but measuring a new basis (still
without tuning) by benchmarking it just doesn't work.

regards,

Rik
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