Re: [PATCH] tiny MM performance and typo patches for 2.4.2

2001-03-05 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Ulrich Kunitz wrote: > > > patch-uk2 makes use of the pgd, pmd and pte quicklists for x86 too; > > risky: there might be a reason that 2.4.x doesn't use the > > quicklists. > > I remember these being taken

Re: [PATCH] tiny MM performance and typo patches for 2.4.2

2001-03-04 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Ulrich Kunitz wrote: > patch-uk2 makes use of the pgd, pmd and pte quicklists for x86 too; > risky: there might be a reason that 2.4.x doesn't use the > quicklists. I remember these being taken out (long ago), but not why. Anyone? -Mi

Re: [PATCH] tiny MM performance and typo patches for 2.4.2

2001-03-04 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > Ulrich Kunitz writes: > > patch-uk6 In 2.4.x _page_hashfn divides struct address_space pointer > >with a parameter derived from the size of struct > >inode. Deriving this parameter from the size of struct > >addr

Re: [PATCH] tiny MM performance and typo patches for 2.4.2

2001-03-04 Thread David S. Miller
Ulrich Kunitz writes: > patch-uk6In 2.4.x _page_hashfn divides struct address_space pointer > with a parameter derived from the size of struct > inode. Deriving this parameter from the size of struct > address_space makes more sense -- at least for m

[PATCH] tiny MM performance and typo patches for 2.4.2

2001-03-04 Thread Ulrich Kunitz
Hi folks, this is a list of patches I collected while looking at the memory management sources. Two patches might improve the performance of your box. The others are more or less cosmetic. This mail is sent with a kernel using these patches. Here is a list sorted with decreasing importance: pa