From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: Bug with shared memory.
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 10:32:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020520173236.GB2046@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020520043040.GA21806@dualathlon.random> <1232380940.1021886032@[10.10.2.3]> <20020520163724.GI21806@dualathlon.random> <221520000.1021915385@flay>
At some point in the past, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>> How much are you swapping in your workload? (as said the fast paths are
>> hurted a little so it's expected that it's almost as fast as mainline
>> with a kernel compile, similar to the fact we also add anon pages to the
>> lru list). I think you're only exercising the fast paths in your
>> workload, not the memory balancing that is the whole point of the change.
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:23:05AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> No swapping. We fixed the horrendous locking problem we were seeing,
> but this was only one test - obviously others are needed. But I think we're
> in agreement that it's time to give it a beating and see what happens ;-)
There's no mystery or secrecy to the locking work, really just overzealous
(which is good wrt. locking changes) QA and a conservative release schedule.
Cheers,
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-20 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-14 15:13 Bug with shared memory Martin Schwidefsky
2002-05-14 19:33 ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-15 22:42 ` Mike Kravetz
2002-05-15 23:07 ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-17 17:53 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-05-17 20:07 ` Mike Kravetz
2002-05-17 20:29 ` Anton Blanchard
2002-05-20 4:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-20 5:21 ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-20 11:34 ` Andrey Savochkin
2002-05-20 14:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-20 19:24 ` Rik van Riel
2002-05-20 23:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-21 0:14 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-21 1:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-20 16:22 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-20 19:38 ` Rik van Riel
2002-05-20 20:06 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-20 16:13 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-20 16:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-20 17:23 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-20 17:32 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-05-24 7:33 ` inode highmem imbalance fix [Re: Bug with shared memory.] Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 7:51 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-24 8:04 ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-24 15:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 11:47 ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-05-30 11:25 ` Denis Lunev
2002-05-30 17:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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