From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754492AbYE3Nx5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 09:53:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751993AbYE3Nxu (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 09:53:50 -0400 Received: from Mycroft.westnet.com ([216.187.52.7]:46334 "EHLO Mycroft.westnet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751942AbYE3Nxt (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 09:53:49 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18496.1712.236440.420038@stoffel.org> Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 09:52:48 -0400 From: "John Stoffel" To: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrew Morton , Lee Schermerhorn , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, eric.whitney@hp.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, npiggin@suse.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/25] Vm Pageout Scalability Improvements (V8) - continued In-Reply-To: <20080529162029.7b942a97@bree.surriel.com> References: <20080529195030.27159.66161.sendpatchset@lts-notebook> <20080529131624.60772eb6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080529162029.7b942a97@bree.surriel.com> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.9 under Emacs 22.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Rik" == Rik van Riel writes: Rik> On Thu, 29 May 2008 13:16:24 -0700 Rik> Andrew Morton wrote: >> I was >this< close to getting onto Rik's patches (honest) but a few >> other people have been kicking the tyres and seem to have caused some >> punctures so I'm expecting V9? Rik> If I send you a V9 up to patch 12, you can apply Lee's patches Rik> straight over my V9 :) I haven't seen any performance numbers talking about how well this stuff works on single or dual CPU machines with smaller amounts of memory, or whether it's worth using on these machines at all? The big machines with lots of memory and lots of CPUs are certainly becoming more prevalent, but for my home machine with 4Gb RAM and dual core, what's the advantage? Let's not slow down the common case for the sake of the bigger guys if possible. John