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

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 remai