Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:37:16 -0800 | From | Mike Travis <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: don't use vmalloc_end |
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Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Mike Travis wrote: > >>> Tony: Can you confirm that the new percpu stuff works on IA64? (Or is >>> there nobody left to care?) >> Christoph, I have access to a 640p system for a couple more weeks if >> there's anything you'd like me to check out. > > Boot with 2.6.32 and see if the per cpu allocator works. Check if there > are any changes to memory consumption. Create a few thousand virtual > ethernet devices and see if the system keels over.
Any advice on how to go about the above would be helpful... ;-)
> > It may also be good to run some scheduler test. Compare AIM9 of latest > SLES with 2.6.32. Concurrent page fault test? Then a performance test with > lots of concurrency but the usual stuff wont work since HPC apps usually > pin.
I'm doing some aim7/9 comparisons right now between SPARSE and DISCONTIG memory configs using sles11 + 2.6.32. Which other benchmarks would you recommend for the other tests?
> > Run latencytest (available in the lldiag package) from > kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/christoph/lldiag and see how the > disturbances by the OS are changed.
I'll put that on the list.
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