On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:05:16 +0530 Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, KAMEZAWA-San, > > For this and the next patch, do you know if there is a performance improvement? > Have we measured it. The complexity of the code seems to be high, want to make > sure it is worth it. I'd like to make codes simpler (by removing knobs and...) I confirmed lock-contention/cache bouncing was much reduced. (you can see it by /proc/lock_stat) But I have no number now. I'm now searching an apps which can show performance improvement clearly and wait for avilable machine ;) So, please wait. I'm not hurrying. > Could we re-use the pagevec mechansim for LRU handling? Hmm, it's also complicated. >That was my long term plan and I also wanted to move the kmalloc's to their >own cache and use kmem_cache_alloc and try some other experiments. maybe good idea. > May be batching the alloc's for > page_container can be done in the same way that you've proposed LRU and > accounting changes. > Maybe. Thanks, -Kame _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers