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Message-ID: <20070503103756.GA19958@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 3 May 2007 11:37:56 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Cc:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...e.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans -- vm bugfixes

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:32:23AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> The attached patch gets performance up a bit by avoiding some
> barriers and some cachelines:
> 
> G5
>          pagefault   fork          exec
> 2.6.21   1.49-1.51   164.6-170.8   741.8-760.3
> +patch   1.71-1.73   175.2-180.8   780.5-794.2
> +patch2  1.61-1.63   169.8-175.0   748.6-757.0
> 
> So that brings the fork/exec hits down to much less than 5%, and
> would likely speed up other things that lock the page, like write
> or page reclaim.

Is that every fork/exec or just under certain cicumstances?
A 5% regression on every fork/exec is not acceptable.

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