Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
> On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 14:45 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>
>> > The patch you are running on is what I'll send to Linus for 3.10 (+/-
>> > cosmetics). Aneesh second patch is a much larger rework which will be
>> > needed for THP but that will wait for 3.11. I'm
On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 14:45 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > The patch you are running on is what I'll send to Linus for 3.10 (+/-
> > cosmetics). Aneesh second patch is a much larger rework which will be
> > needed for THP but that will wait for 3.11. I'm happy for you to test it
> > but I firs
On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 22:05 -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > Sure, it's now under way. If all goes well, I'll give you a
> > progress report in about 15 hours time; but given the variance in
> > how long it took to hit, I won't feel fully confident until this
> > time tomorrow, when I'll update you
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" writes:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
>
>> On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 22:47 -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>>> Running my favourite swapping load (repeated make -j20 kernel builds
>>> in tmpfs in parallel with repeated make -j20 kernel builds in ext4 on
>>> loop on tmpfs file, all l
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
> On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 22:47 -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>> Running my favourite swapping load (repeated make -j20 kernel builds
>> in tmpfs in parallel with repeated make -j20 kernel builds in ext4 on
>> loop on tmpfs file, all limited by mem=700M and swap 1.5G) on
On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 13:57 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> + /* FIXME!!, will fail with when we enable hugepage
> support */
Just fix that to say "Transparent huge pages" as normal huge pages
should work fine unless I'm missing something.
Hugh, any chance you can give that a spin
On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 22:47 -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Running my favourite swapping load (repeated make -j20 kernel builds
> in tmpfs in parallel with repeated make -j20 kernel builds in ext4 on
> loop on tmpfs file, all limited by mem=700M and swap 1.5G) on 3.10-rc
> on PowerMac G5, the test di
