Re: [BENCHMARKS] Namesys VM patches improve kbuild

Nick Piggin
2004-01-23T12:15:53Z

Nikita Danilov wrote:

>Nick Piggin writes:
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
>I presume (from the picture) that dont-rotate-active-list is meant, right?
>
>

Thats right