On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> Gotta wrong results in my previous perftest... (slightly different
> environments), so these are to be sure that on low VM load there isnt
> any significant difference...
As expected, the current patch only modifies mechanisms and
leaves most policy the same. Under some loads there is a
difference, but under light VM loads the same-policy-more-info
replacement should indeed be pretty similar.
> Bonus: two bugs! :)
> 1. Quintela`s (shmtest of memtest) and pmap{2,3} == 100% instant deadlock
> plain ac12 demonstrates ignorance.
I'll try to reproduce that one when I get back home thursday.
> 2. Swapoff oops 100% - only in pmap3! (okay, swapoff of reiserfs
> to be strict, but i think that doesnt actually matters)
> swapoff oops will be in next mail.
This one is fixed. I'll be sitting inside a big tin can with
wings all day tomorrow, but thursday I'll try to post a new
version, hopefully with both these bugs fixed.
Thanks for testing the patch and pointing out the bugs!
regards,
Rik
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