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Byte Benchmarks Various Linux Trees

Posted by timothy on from the root-and-branch dept.

urbanjunkie writes: "Moshe Bar has an interesting article, essentially benchmarking the standard kernel (with aa VM) against the -ac kernel (with Rik's VM)." He also raises some very interesting points about how patches (and entire development trees) interact.

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  1. Re:Interesting conclusion... by Rik+van+Riel · · Score: 5, Interesting
    What a nice article and it seems to come at a time just then everyone is talking about "Fork this and Fork that" that in fact this is exactly what is needed in this healthy debate.
    Indeed, forks are (IMHO) the best way of doing development. Doing your development in the main kernel will just lead to contradictory code being integrated and the code never working quite right because it's missing fixes (guess why RH's 2.4.9 runs faster ... it does have the fixes).

    One minor nitpick though ... I never released an -rmap VM against 2.4.18-pre3, the latest is still against 2.4.17. I suspect that the crashes Moshe saw are due to some change in 2.4.18-pre3 conflicting with the -rmap VM patch, especially since rmap-11c has survived the kernel torture lab at RH. ;)