Re: [patch] Re: 2.1.123 (Possibly slower)

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Thu, 1 Oct 1998 15:06:06 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> >> I have not seen the original email from Richard, but Richard did you seen
> >> my email with the VM patch that I am using all the time and that I have
> >> suggested to use with 2.1.123 to people that would see performance drop?
> >>
> >
> >I have not seen the patch although I have read email on this subject.
> >If it patches cleanly on 2.1.123, I'll be glad to try it and report.
>
> Here the patch again (maybe the email got missed?):
>
> As just said the hack to free_page_and_swap_cache() is an idea from
> Stephen.
[SNIPPED Patch]
Okay , I will try it on my super SMP machinee.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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