[Lse-tech] Re: 2.6.0-test11-wli-2

[Yaroslav R. <ya...@re...>]

On Saturday 13 December 2003 04:27, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:29:29PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> > Successfully tested on a Thinkpad T21 and 32GB NUMA-Q. Any feedback
> > regarding performance would be very helpful. Desktop users should
> > notice top(1) is faster, kernel hackers that kernel compiles are faster,
> > and highmem users should see much less per-process lowmem overhead
Performance is, indeed, better. My Thinkpad T21 feels slightly on steroids 
with -wli-2 :-). Some problems, though, were encountered:
1. fs/dcache.c/d_validate() function was removed in your patch, but it is used 
in at least one place ( fs/smbfs/cache.c/smb_dget_fpos() ).
2. With 2.6.0-test11 vanilla, suspend-to-ram/suspend-to-disk was working 
nicely. With -wli-2 suspend fails on 'stopping tasks' phase, and aborts with 

Dec 13 01:08:47 localhost kernel: Stopping tasks: ======================                                                    
Dec 13 01:08:47 localhost kernel:  stopping tasks failed (1 tasks remaining)                                                
Dec 13 01:08:47 localhost kernel: Restarting tasks...<6> Strange, swapper not 
stopped

Hope this helps. 
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