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From: "Mark A. Greer" <mgreer@mvista•com>
To: Val Henson <val@nmt•edu>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Highmem on PPC?
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 14:53:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C62F74F.DE090C2C@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020207144308.C19569@boardwalk


Val Henson wrote:

> Also, I don't think this was a particularly good test of highmem since
> I don't think many bounce buffers were used, or that the kernel had
> much reason to map/unmap many highmem pages.  Unfortunately, my SCSI
> controller isn't working quite right and I can't test with a hard disk
> as a result.  Any ideas for stressing the system harder?

You could try lowering max_low_mem.  You can do this by setting "Code
maturity level option"/"Prompt for advanced kernel configuration options"
and then going under where you selected HIGH_MEM and setting max_low_mem
size to something small.

It will likely take some trial and error to get it stressed enough.
You'll have to start a bunch or processes and look at where they're
getting their memory

I'd be interested in hearing how it goes.

Mark


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-07 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-05  1:32 Highmem on PPC? Val Henson
2002-02-05 12:52 ` benh
2002-02-05 18:56   ` Val Henson
2002-02-05 19:33     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-02-05 19:42       ` Val Henson
2002-02-05 19:47         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-02-07 12:27       ` Christopher Murtagh
2002-02-07 21:43       ` Val Henson
2002-02-07 21:51         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-02-07 21:56           ` Val Henson
2002-02-07 21:59             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-02-07 21:53         ` Mark A. Greer [this message]
2002-02-07 21:58           ` Val Henson
2002-02-07 23:09             ` Mark A. Greer
2002-02-08  3:02         ` Tom Rini
2002-02-08  6:05         ` Christopher Murtagh
2002-02-08  6:25           ` Val Henson
2002-02-08 17:36       ` Val Henson

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