From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200102082317.SAA27866@mal-ach.watson.ibm.com> To: Cort Dougan Cc: paulus@linuxcare.com.au, Dan Malek , Gabriel Paubert , tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com, linuxppc-commit@hq.fsmlabs.com, linuxppc-dev Subject: Re: context overflow In-Reply-To: Message from Cort Dougan of "Thu, 08 Feb 2001 15:26:42 MST." <20010208152641.P24312@hq.fsmlabs.com> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 18:17:31 -0500 From: David Edelsohn Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: I do not know which version of AIX you were testing and exactly how your benchmarks were stressing the system. AIX continually is improving, just as is the Linux kernel. As I said, the your design was very good for the particular class of PowerPC implementation that you were targetting. AIX normally is tuned for a different class of processors and system configurations than Linux has targeted, so I would not expect them to have the same sweet spot when running benchmarks. We currently are in the process of writing some papers about the system which should explain some of the design decisions. We very much want to help improve the PowerPC Linux kernel VMM design and interact with you and other developers. After the current papers are done, we will have more time to engage in discussions about this. David ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/