Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:17:51 -0400 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] i386: Remove page sized slabs for pgds and pmds |
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 02:05:54PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Tried this also on x86_64 with an enhanced quicklist patch that also deals > with ptes (at the price of not guaranteeing the free after the tlb flush): ... > Seems that there is a slight benefit but its also barely above noise > level.
You're not running a test that will show any benefit in this area. Run some heavy shell scripts or lmbench's fork() and exec() latency tests to get real numbers.
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