Re: [PATCH] page coloring for 2.4.18 kernel

From: Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
Date: Tue Apr 23 2002 - 16:53:33 EST


On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 17:51, Dieter Nützel wrote:

> Page coloring for 2.4.18+ isn't preempt save?
>
> It gave ~10% speedup for memory intensive apps on my single 1 GHz Athlon II
> SlotA (0,18µm, L2 512K) but look the system hard from time to time. Nothing
> in the logs.
>
> I've changed the patch for 2.4.19-pre7 + vm3 + latest rml-O(1) + preempt.

Beats me. Some of the implementations of page colouring I have seen are
not even SMP-safe.

"Don't do that"

        Robert Love

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