Re: [BENCHMARKS] Namesys VM patches improve kbuild

Nikita Danilov
2004-01-23T09:42:09Z

Nick Piggin writes:
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> Andrew Morton wrote:
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> >
> >Yes, I do think that the "LRU" is a bit of a misnomer - it's very
> >approximate and only really suits simple workloads. I suspect that once
> >things get hot and heavy the "lru" is only four-deep:
> >unreferenced/inactive, referenced/inactive, unreferenced/active and
> >referenced/active.
> >
> >Can you test the patches separately, see what bits are actually helping?
> >
>
> OK, sorry for the delay.
> http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/vm/namesys.png
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> The LRU patch is the one that does it.
>

I presume (from the picture) that dont-rotate-active-list is meant, right?

Nikita.