Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2 (vm-dont-run-touch_buffer-during-buffercache-lookups.patch)

2007-08-01 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:04:06 -0400 Eric St-Laurent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I intend to try only this specific patch not the full -mm, is there any > other patch I need to apply too? > no, it is standalone. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2 (vm-dont-run-touch_buffer-during-buffercache-lookups.patch)

2007-08-01 Thread Eric St-Laurent
On Wed, 2007-01-08 at 00:46 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Or you could do something more real-worldly like start up OO, firefox and > friends, then run /etc/cron.daily/everything and see what the > before-and-after effects are. The aggregate info we're looking for is > captured in /proc/meminfo:

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2 (vm-dont-run-touch_buffer-during-buffercache-lookups.patch)

2007-08-01 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:36:30 -0400 Eric St-Laurent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-31-07 at 23:09 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > +vm-dont-run-touch_buffer-during-buffercache-lookups.patch > > > > A little VM experiment. See changelog for details. > > > We don't have any tests to

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2 (vm-dont-run-touch_buffer-during-buffercache-lookups.patch)

2007-08-01 Thread Eric St-Laurent
On Tue, 2007-31-07 at 23:09 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > +vm-dont-run-touch_buffer-during-buffercache-lookups.patch > > A little VM experiment. See changelog for details. > We don't have any tests to determine the effects of this, and nobody will > bother setting one up, so ho hum, this

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2 (vm-dont-run-touch_buffer-during-buffercache-lookups.patch)

2007-08-01 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:36:30 -0400 Eric St-Laurent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-31-07 at 23:09 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: +vm-dont-run-touch_buffer-during-buffercache-lookups.patch A little VM experiment. See changelog for details. We don't have any tests to determine

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2 (vm-dont-run-touch_buffer-during-buffercache-lookups.patch)

2007-08-01 Thread Eric St-Laurent
On Tue, 2007-31-07 at 23:09 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: +vm-dont-run-touch_buffer-during-buffercache-lookups.patch A little VM experiment. See changelog for details. We don't have any tests to determine the effects of this, and nobody will bother setting one up, so ho hum, this remains

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2 (vm-dont-run-touch_buffer-during-buffercache-lookups.patch)

2007-08-01 Thread Eric St-Laurent
On Wed, 2007-01-08 at 00:46 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Or you could do something more real-worldly like start up OO, firefox and friends, then run /etc/cron.daily/everything and see what the before-and-after effects are. The aggregate info we're looking for is captured in /proc/meminfo:

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2 (vm-dont-run-touch_buffer-during-buffercache-lookups.patch)

2007-08-01 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:04:06 -0400 Eric St-Laurent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I intend to try only this specific patch not the full -mm, is there any other patch I need to apply too? no, it is standalone. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a