From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Shantanu Goel <sgoel01@yahoo.com>
Cc: Antonio Vargas <wind@cocodriloo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [VM PATCH] Faster reclamation of dirty pages and unused inode/dcache entries in 2.4.22
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:06:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030829180623.GB27023@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030829175544.84979.qmail@web12803.mail.yahoo.com>
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 10:55:44AM -0700, Shantanu Goel wrote:
> I am not very knowledgeable about micro-optimizations.
> I'll take your word for it. ;-) What interests me
> more is whether others notice any performance
> improvement under swapout with this patch given that
> is on the order of milliseconds.
But have you compared your patch with the VM patches in -aa? Will your
patch apply on -aa and make improvements there too?
In other words: Why would I want to use this patch when I could use -aa?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-29 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-29 15:01 [VM PATCH] Faster reclamation of dirty pages and unused inode/dcache entries in 2.4.22 Shantanu Goel
2003-08-29 14:57 ` Antonio Vargas
2003-08-29 17:55 ` Shantanu Goel
2003-08-29 18:06 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2003-08-29 18:46 ` Shantanu Goel
2003-08-29 18:57 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-29 19:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-29 19:46 ` Shantanu Goel
2003-08-29 19:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-29 20:20 ` Shantanu Goel
2003-08-30 5:01 ` Antonio Vargas
2003-09-20 13:39 ` A couple of 2.4.23-pre4 VM nits Shantanu Goel
2003-09-21 2:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-21 5:32 ` Shantanu Goel
2003-09-21 14:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-21 14:51 ` Shantanu Goel
2003-09-21 15:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-21 15:28 ` Shantanu Goel
2003-09-21 15:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-21 18:37 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-29 19:11 ` [VM PATCH] Faster reclamation of dirty pages and unused inode/dcache entries in 2.4.22 Rahul Karnik
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