On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Mel Gorman wrote: > Can figures also be shown then as part of the patch? It would appear that > one possibility would be to boot a machine with 1G and simply measure the > time taken to complete 7 simultaneous kernel compiles (so that kswapd is > active) and measure the number of pages direct reclaimed and reclaimed by > kswapd. Rerun the test except that all the kernel builds are at a higher > priority than kswapd. > Ok, I'll collect those statistics. > When all the priorities are the same, the reclaim figures should match > with or without the patch. With the priorities higher, then the direct > reclaims should be higher without this patch reflecting the fact that > kswapd was starved of CPU. > Agreed. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>