From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261769AbTH2T7v (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:59:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261697AbTH2T5g (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:57:36 -0400 Received: from ppp-217-133-42-200.cust-adsl.tiscali.it ([217.133.42.200]:452 "EHLO dualathlon.random") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261757AbTH2Tzp (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:55:45 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 21:55:43 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Shantanu Goel Cc: Antonio Vargas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Marc-Christian Petersen Subject: Re: [VM PATCH] Faster reclamation of dirty pages and unused inode/dcache entries in 2.4.22 Message-ID: <20030829195543.GD24409@dualathlon.random> References: <20030829192844.GB24409@dualathlon.random> <20030829194636.33817.qmail@web12807.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030829194636.33817.qmail@web12807.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-GPG-Key: 1024D/68B9CB43 13D9 8355 295F 4823 7C49 C012 DFA1 686E 68B9 CB43 X-PGP-Key: 1024R/CB4660B9 CC A0 71 81 F4 A0 63 AC C0 4B 81 1D 8C 15 C8 E5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 12:46:36PM -0700, Shantanu Goel wrote: > Andrea, > > I'll test and submit a patch against -aa. Also, is > there a common benchmark that you use to test for > regression? bonnie,tiobench,dbench would be a very good start for the basics (note: dbench can be misleading, but at the same fariness levels, it's interesting too, it's just that dbench doesn't measure the fariness level itself [like tiobench started doing relatively recently]). (I'm assuming the patch makes difference not only for mmapped dirty pages, in such case the above would be non interesting) thanks, Andrea