Re: 2.6.13-mm3

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On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 02:43:50AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
<snip>
> - There are several performance tuning patches here which need careful
>   attention and testing.  (Does anyone do performance testing any more?)
<snip>
> 
>   - The size of the page allocator per-cpu magazines has been increased
> 
>   - The page allocator has been changed to use higher-order allocations
>     when batch-loading the per-cpu magazines.  This is intended to give
>     improved cache colouring effects however it might have the downside of
>     causing extra page allocator fragmentation.
> 
>   - The page allocator's per-cpu magazines have had their lower threshold
>     set to zero.  And we can't remember why it ever had a lower threshold.
> 

What would you like? The usual suspects:  SDET, dbench, kernbench ?

Sonny
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