Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:54:35 -0400 | From | Sonny Rao <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.13-mm3 |
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On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 02:43:50AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: <snip> > - There are several performance tuning patches here which need careful > attention and testing. (Does anyone do performance testing any more?) <snip> > > - The size of the page allocator per-cpu magazines has been increased > > - The page allocator has been changed to use higher-order allocations > when batch-loading the per-cpu magazines. This is intended to give > improved cache colouring effects however it might have the downside of > causing extra page allocator fragmentation. > > - The page allocator's per-cpu magazines have had their lower threshold > set to zero. And we can't remember why it ever had a lower threshold. >
What would you like? The usual suspects: SDET, dbench, kernbench ?
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