Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:29:07 -0200 | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: page table lock patch V15 [0/7]: overview |
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 01:42:35AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > > > > Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > Changes from V14->V15 of this patch: > > > > Hi, > > > > I wonder what everyone thinks about moving forward with these patches? > > I was waiting for them to settle down before paying more attention. > > My general take is that these patches address a single workload on > exceedingly rare and expensive machines. If they adversely affect common > and cheap machines via code complexity, memory footprint or via runtime > impact then it would be pretty hard to justify their inclusion. > > Do we have measurements of the negative and/or positive impact on smaller > machines?
I haven't seen wide performance numbers of this patch yet.
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