Re: [BENCHMARKS] Namesys VM patches improve kbuild

Nick Piggin
2004-01-23T07:16:24Z

Andrew Morton wrote:

>
>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

The LRU patch is the one that does it.