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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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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