From: wli@holomorphy.com
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
wli@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk,
"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org,
phillips@bonn-fries.net
Subject: Re: 2.4.19pre2aa1
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:48:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020312114835.B14628@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020312070645.X10413@dualathlon.random> <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0203120746000.2181-100000@imladris.surriel.com> <20020312124728.L25226@dualathlon.random>
In-Reply-To: <20020312124728.L25226@dualathlon.random>; from andrea@suse.de on Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:47:28PM +0100
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:47:28PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Bill said that "randomness" is not the right word to use, I instead
> think it's the key. If it's pure random mul will make no difference to
> the distribution. And the closer we're to pure random like in the
> wait_table hash, the less mul will help and the more important will be
> to just get right the two contigous pages in the same cacheline and
> nothing else.
Aha! It's random! Is the distribution:
(1) Poisson
(2) singular
(3) binomial
(4) hypergeometric
or what?
Cheers,
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-12 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-12 4:19 2.4.19pre2aa1 wli
2002-03-12 5:31 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 wli
2002-03-12 6:36 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-03-12 6:06 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-03-12 10:46 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Rik van Riel
2002-03-12 11:47 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-03-12 11:48 ` wli [this message]
2002-03-12 12:21 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Daniel Phillips
2002-03-12 14:25 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-03-12 14:32 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Daniel Phillips
2002-03-15 17:20 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Horst von Brand
2002-03-15 16:43 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-03-12 11:29 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 wli
2002-03-12 12:56 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-03-12 13:20 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Rik van Riel
2002-03-12 13:33 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Richard B. Johnson
2002-03-12 14:17 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 wli
2002-03-12 14:30 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Richard B. Johnson
2002-03-13 2:18 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 wli
2002-03-13 19:06 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Richard B. Johnson
2002-03-13 22:10 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 wli
2002-03-14 12:18 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Richard B. Johnson
2002-03-14 12:47 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Daniel Phillips
2002-03-14 13:59 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Rik van Riel
2002-03-14 14:02 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Daniel Phillips
2002-03-12 14:14 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 wli
2002-03-12 15:04 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-03-12 23:31 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 wli
2002-03-13 0:09 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Andrew Morton
2002-03-13 1:06 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 wli
2002-03-13 1:24 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Andrew Morton
2002-03-13 7:37 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Daniel Phillips
2002-03-13 7:30 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-03-13 7:55 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Andrew Morton
2002-03-13 8:06 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-03-13 10:57 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-03-13 13:51 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Rik van Riel
2002-03-13 14:03 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-03-13 19:19 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Andrew Morton
2002-03-13 8:12 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Daniel Phillips
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-08 2:40 2.4.19pre2aa1 rwhron
2002-03-07 8:21 2.4.19pre2aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-03-07 10:49 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 William Lee Irwin III
2002-03-07 11:27 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Daniel Phillips
2002-03-07 11:47 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 William Lee Irwin III
2002-03-07 11:46 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Daniel Phillips
2002-03-07 17:03 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-03-07 20:18 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 William Lee Irwin III
2002-03-07 20:38 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Richard B. Johnson
2002-03-08 0:22 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-03-08 0:26 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Rik van Riel
2002-03-08 0:11 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-03-07 11:34 ` 2.4.19pre2aa1 Christoph Hellwig
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