Re: [PATCH] page coloring for 2.4.18 kernel

Robert Love
2002-04-23T21:53:36Z

On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 17:51, Dieter Nützel wrote:

> Page coloring for 2.4.18+ isn't preempt save?
>
> It gave ~10% speedup for memory intensive apps on my single 1 GHz Athlon II
> SlotA (0,18µm, L2 512K) but look the system hard from time to time. Nothing
> in the logs.
>
> I've changed the patch for 2.4.19-pre7 + vm3 + latest rml-O(1) + preempt.

Beats me. Some of the implementations of page colouring I have seen are
not even SMP-safe.

"Don't do that"

Robert Love