I thought I save myself the constant crossposting of large amounts of patches. Patches, documentation, test results etc are available at
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/page_fault_performance/ Changes: - Performance tests for all patchsets (i386 single processor, Altix 8 processors and Altix 128 processors) - Archives of patches so far - Some docs (still needs work) - Patches against 2.6.11-rc4-bk4 Patch specific: atomic operations for page faults (V17) - Avoid incrementing page count for page in do_wp_page (see discussion with Nick Piggin on last patchset) prezeroing (V7) - set /proc/sys/vm/scrub_load to 1 by default to avoid slight performance loss during kernel compile on i386 - Scrubd needs to be configured in kernel configuration as an experimental feature. - Patch still follows kswapd's method to bind node specific scrubd daemons to each NUMA node. Cannot find any new infrastructure to assign tasks to certain nodes. kthread_bind() binds to single cpu and not to a NUMA node. Guess other API work would have to be first done to realize Andrews proposed approach. prefaulting (V5) - Set default for /proc/sys/vm/max_prealloc_order to 1 to avoid overallocating pages which led to a performance loss in some situations. This is pretty complex thing to manage so please tell me if I missed anything ... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
