Re: 2.5.34-mm2

Daniel Phillips
2002-09-15T04:16:04Z

On Sunday 15 September 2002 06:12, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > I heard you
> > mention, on the one hand, huge speedups on some load (dbench I think)
> > but your in-patch comments mention slowdown by 1.7X on kernel
> > compile.
>
> You misread. Relative times for running `make -j6 bzImage' with mem=512m:
>
> Unloaded system: 1.0
> 2.5.34-mm4, while running 4 x `dbench 100' 1.7
> Any other kernel while running 4 x `dbench 100' basically infinity

Oh good :-)

We can make the rescanning go away in time, with more lru lists, but
that sure looks like the low hanging fruit.

--
Daniel