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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>,
	Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Optimize out pte_chain take three
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:38:42 -0300 (BRT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0207101737400.14432-100000@imladris.surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D2C9900.EF65CE2E@zip.com.au>

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:

> How do the BSD and proprietary kernel developers evaluate
> their VMs?

Proper statistics inside their VM, combined with some
basic workload testing.

Most importantly, they don't seem to hang themselves
on benchmarks. Benchmarks can be won by finetuning
whatever you have but measuring a new basis (still
without tuning) by benchmarking it just doesn't work.

regards,

Rik
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-10 20:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-09 19:04 [PATCH] Optimize out pte_chain take two Dave McCracken
2002-07-10  0:21 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-10 14:33   ` [PATCH] Optimize out pte_chain take three Dave McCracken
2002-07-10 15:18     ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-10 17:32       ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-10 20:01         ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-10 20:14           ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-10 20:28             ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-10 20:38               ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2002-07-13 13:42                 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-10 20:33             ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-07-10 22:22           ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-11  0:39             ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-11  0:47               ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-11  1:27                 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-13 14:10                 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-11  1:51               ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-11  2:28                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-11 19:54                 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-11 20:05                   ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-11 20:42                     ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-11 20:54                       ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-11 21:16                         ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-11 21:41                           ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-11 22:38                             ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-11 23:18                               ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-12 18:27                                 ` Paul Larson
2002-07-12 19:06                                   ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-12 19:28                                 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-13 15:08                               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-11 22:54                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-13 14:52                   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-13 14:08               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-13 14:20               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-13 14:45             ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-13 13:22           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-13 13:30             ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-13 13:55               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-13 13:41           ` Daniel Phillips

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