Recent sys/vm/ changes and nvidia-driver

Brandon Gooch jamesbrandongooch at gmail.com
Sat May 8 21:39:50 UTC 2010


On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 4:20 PM, b. f. <bf1783 at 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.  This 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?

-Brandon


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