Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.4.23aa2 (bugfixes and important VM improvements for the high end) | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Fri, 12 Mar 2004 22:25:05 +0100 |
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
> but i'm quite strongly convinced that 'getting rid' of the 'pte chain > overhead' in favor of questionable lowmem space gains for a dying > (high-end server) platform is very shortsighted. [getting rid of them > for purposes of the 64-bit platforms could be OK, but the argumentation > isnt that strong there i think.]
pte chain locking seems to be still quite far up in profile logs of 2.6 on x86-64 for common workloads. It's nonexistent in mainline 2.4. I would consider this a strong reason to do something about that.
-Andi
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