Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 14:44:15 -0700 From: Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com> To: Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com> Cc: bf1783@gmail.com, alc@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recent sys/vm/ changes and nvidia-driver Message-ID: <w2zb1fa29171005081444uf7c5e978kec1d69358d8753f2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <q2i179b97fb1005081439k8fd97c85y9e53c8db3aea9e3c@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTil0Gs3shexWm28gceSFpvIeJKfMAYEk9_t4jmzH@mail.gmail.com> <q2i179b97fb1005081439k8fd97c85y9e53c8db3aea9e3c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 4:20 PM, b. f. <bf1783@googlemail.com> wrote: >> On 05/08/10 13:36, Alan Cox wrote: >>> Doug Barton wrote: >>>> On 05/05/10 11:56, Alan Cox wrote: >>>> >>>>> I'm afraid that I would advise waiting a few days. =A0This round of >>>>> changes >>>>> are not yet complete. >> >> What performance differences, if any, can we expect on uniprocessors >> from the vm page lock-related changes? Kip's original post on -arch >> mentioned some performance improvements and no significant >> regressions, but on a dual 4-core machine. > > Alan (or Kip): Is there a document available that describes the work > being done on the VM system? > > I would like to -- or like make and attempt to -- read such a document... > > Hey b. f., to which post on -arch are you referring? there is no document. The basic idea is straightforward, but there are some unpleasant edges to cope with. http://www.mavetju.org/mail/view_message.php?list=3Dfreebsd-arch&id=3D31552= 60&thread=3Dno -Kip
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