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From: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Kurt Hackel <kurt.hackel@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] promote zcache from staging
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:14:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50254F69.2000409@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2e9ccb4f-1339-4c26-88dd-ea294b022127@default>

On 08/09/2012 03:20 PM, Dan Magenheimer wrote
> I also wonder if you have anything else unusual in your
> test setup, such as a fast swap disk (mine is a partition
> on the same rotating disk as source and target of the kernel build,
> the default install for a RHEL6 system)?

I'm using a normal SATA HDD with two partitions, one for
swap and the other an ext3 filesystem with the kernel source.

> Or have you disabled cleancache?

Yes, I _did_ disable cleancache.  I could see where having
cleancache enabled could explain the difference in results.

> Or have you changed any sysfs parameters or
> other kernel files?

No.

> And are you using 512M of physical memory or relying on
> kernel boot parameters to reduce visible memory

Limited with mem=512M boot parameter.

> ... and
> if the latter have you confirmed with /proc/meminfo?

Yes, confirmed.

Seth

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-10 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-27 18:18 [PATCH 0/4] promote zcache from staging Seth Jennings
2012-07-27 18:18 ` [PATCH 1/4] zsmalloc: collapse internal .h into .c Seth Jennings
2012-07-27 18:18 ` [PATCH 2/4] zsmalloc: promote to mm/ Seth Jennings
2012-07-27 18:18 ` [PATCH 3/4] drivers: add memory management driver class Seth Jennings
2012-07-31 15:31   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-07-27 18:18 ` [PATCH 4/4] zcache: promote to drivers/mm/ Seth Jennings
2012-07-29  2:20 ` [PATCH 0/4] promote zcache from staging Minchan Kim
2012-08-07 20:23 ` Seth Jennings
2012-08-07 21:47   ` Dan Magenheimer
2012-08-08 16:29     ` Seth Jennings
2012-08-08 17:47       ` Dan Magenheimer
2012-08-09 18:50   ` Seth Jennings
2012-08-09 20:20     ` Dan Magenheimer
2012-08-10 18:14       ` Seth Jennings [this message]
2012-08-15  9:38         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-08-15 14:24           ` Seth Jennings
2012-08-17 22:21         ` Dan Magenheimer
2012-08-17 23:33           ` Seth Jennings
2012-08-18 19:09             ` Dan Magenheimer
2012-08-14 22:18 ` Seth Jennings
2012-08-14 23:29   ` Minchan Kim
     [not found] <<1343413117-1989-1-git-send-email-sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-07-27 19:21 ` Dan Magenheimer
2012-07-27 20:59   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-07-27 21:42     ` Dan Magenheimer
2012-07-29  1:54       ` Minchan Kim
2012-07-31 15:36         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-08-06  4:49           ` Minchan Kim
2012-07-30 19:19       ` Seth Jennings
2012-07-30 20:48         ` Dan Magenheimer
2012-07-31 15:58           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-07-31 16:19             ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-31 17:51               ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-07-31 18:19                 ` Seth Jennings
2012-08-06  0:38                 ` Minchan Kim
2012-08-06 15:24                   ` Dan Magenheimer
2012-08-06 15:47                     ` Pekka Enberg
2012-08-06 16:21                       ` Dan Magenheimer
2012-08-06 16:29                         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-06 16:38                           ` Dan Magenheimer
2012-08-07  0:44                         ` Minchan Kim
2012-08-07 19:28                   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

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