From: Patrick McFarland <unknown@panax.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VM
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 23:15:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011015231552.D1314@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011015211216.A1314@localhost> <9qg46l$378$1@penguin.transmeta.com> <20011015230836.B1314@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20011015230836.B1314@localhost>
also considering more stuff,
someone said that this is more of a political issue, but seeing that I stay out of political issues, Im looking for the better code here. Thats all I care about.
On 15-Oct-2001, Patrick McFarland wrote:
> reading what lang wrote, ive been thinking
>
> Im on the type of machine that swapping the least is most favorable. rik's vm seems that it would be able to swap less, and not swap the wrong things enough of the time. andrea's, if i try to do something major, it swaps like crazy, but I havent tested rik's because I dont trust the rest of the ac tree to mess around with it. Is there any chance of rik's vm being atleast an option to choose, and possibly see what the community wants? Maybe if rik's vm is cleaned up, that 5% of stupidity would go down to the less than 1% we all hope for.
>
> On 16-Oct-2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > In article <20011015211216.A1314@localhost>,
> > Patrick McFarland <unknown@panax.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >Why is the simple vm system still in place on the linus tree? I would
> > think the smart vm system in the ac tree would be better suited to ..
> > oh.. say .. everything.
> >
> > "complex" != "smart".
> >
> > The benchmarks I've seen says that the simple VM performs better - both
> > in terms of repeatability and in terms of absolute performance. Search
> > this list yourself if you don't believe me.
> >
> > Linus
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-16 3:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-16 1:12 VM Patrick McFarland
2001-10-16 0:53 ` VM David Lang
2001-10-16 12:28 ` VM John Levon
2001-10-16 12:34 ` VM Tobias Ringstrom
2001-10-16 16:17 ` VM David Lang
2001-10-16 1:57 ` VM Linus Torvalds
2001-10-16 3:08 ` VM Patrick McFarland
2001-10-16 3:15 ` VM Robert Love
2001-10-16 3:17 ` VM Patrick McFarland
[not found] ` <1003202417.861.6.camel@phantasy>
[not found] ` <20011015232245.F1314@localhost>
2001-10-16 3:28 ` VM Robert Love
2001-10-16 5:08 ` VM safemode
2001-10-16 4:40 ` VM David Lang
2001-10-16 13:34 ` VM safemode
2001-10-16 14:19 ` VM Allan Sandfeld
2001-10-16 16:14 ` VM Rik van Riel
2001-10-16 3:15 ` Patrick McFarland [this message]
2001-10-16 10:26 ` VM Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-10-16 23:38 ` VM Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-17 0:49 ` VM Rik van Riel
2001-10-17 1:15 ` VM Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-16 23:24 ` VM Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-16 8:14 ` VM Anuradha Ratnaweera
2001-10-16 13:36 ` VM Luigi Genoni
2001-10-16 14:04 ` VM bill davidsen
2001-10-16 14:11 ` VM Rik van Riel
2001-10-16 14:41 ` VM Martin Dalecki
2001-10-16 13:51 ` VM Bill Davidsen
2001-10-16 8:08 ` VM Alan Cox
[not found] <E7405EE40489D411B30F00508BF38F8D049677E2@wlvexc01.diginsite.com>
2001-10-16 16:44 ` VM David Lang
2001-10-16 18:11 ` VM Rik van Riel
2001-10-16 22:31 ` VM Luigi Genoni
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-17 2:31 VM Marcelo Roberto Jimenez
2001-10-17 7:55 VM Leeuw van der, Tim
2001-10-17 11:08 ` VM Liu Tao
2001-10-22 13:36 VM Michael T. Babcock
2001-10-22 14:02 ` VM Alan Cox
2001-10-22 18:00 ` VM Mike Fedyk
2001-10-22 17:32 ` VM Marcelo Tosatti
2001-10-22 18:59 ` VM Daniel Phillips
2001-10-22 22:10 ` VM Ed Tomlinson
2001-10-23 5:37 ` VM Keith Owens
2001-10-23 5:38 ` VM Keith Owens
2001-10-23 16:15 ` VM Daniel Phillips
2001-10-23 16:14 ` VM David Lang
2001-10-24 13:54 ` VM J . A . Magallon
2001-10-24 18:11 ` VM Luigi Genoni
2001-10-24 14:44 ` VM Daniel Phillips
2001-10-24 16:24 ` VM David Lang
2001-10-24 17:56 ` VM Daniel Phillips
2001-10-24 16:50 ` VM David Lang
2001-10-24 18:29 ` VM Daniel Phillips
2001-10-22 20:21 ` VM Alan Cox
2001-10-22 22:35 ` VM J . A . Magallon
2001-10-22 21:33 VM Marcelo Roberto Jimenez
2001-10-22 21:44 ` VM Oliver Xymoron
2001-10-23 4:27 ` VM Patrick McFarland
2001-10-23 20:04 ` VM bill davidsen
2001-10-23 20:13 ` VM Rik van Riel
2001-10-23 22:15 ` VM Patrick McFarland
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