Re: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Martin Hicks <mort@wildopensource.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 11:54:58PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>  > 
>  > vm-early-zone-reclaim
>  > 
>  >     Needs some convincing benchmark numbers to back it up.  Otherwise OK.
> 
>  The only benchmarks I have for this were included in my last mail to
>  linux-mm:
> 
>  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=111763597218177&w=2
> 
>  Are they convincing?  Well, the patch doesn't seem to make the memory
>  thrashing case much worse ("make -j" kernbench run) which is a good
>  thing since the VM is trying to reclaim much earlier.
> 
>  In the same e-mail I mention that there is a fairly good performance
>  gain in the optimal case, where processes are tied to a single node and
>  the node's memory is filled with page cache.  With zone reclaim turned
>  on the "make -j8" kernel build runs in 700 seconds;  735 seconds with
>  no reclaim.

Ah, OK, I failed to capture that info.  (I always have to move the info in
the [patch 0/n] email into the first real patch, and this time I didn't)

Thanks.
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