Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Dec 2004 05:58:55 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] NUMA boot hash allocation interleaving |
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> > And just to clarify, are you saying you want to see this before inclusion > > in mainline kernels, or that it would be nice to have but not necessary? > > I'd say it's a nice to have, rather than necessary, as long as it's not > forced upon people. Maybe a config option that's on by default on ia64 > or something. Causing yourself TLB problems is much more acceptable than > causing it for others ;-)
Given that Brent did lots of benchmarks which didn't show any slowdowns I don't think this is really needed (at least as long as nobody demonstrates a ireal slowdown from the patch). And having such special cases is always ugly, better not have them when not needed.
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