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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] mm/highmem: make kmap cache coloring aware
On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 04:38:01 +0400 Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:17 AM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > Fifthly, it would be very useful to publish the performance testing
> > results for at least one architecture so that we can determine the
> > patchset's desirability. And perhaps to motivate other architectures
> > to implement this.
>
> What sort of performance numbers would be relevant?
> For xtensa this patch enables highmem use for cores with aliasing cache,
> that is access to a gigabyte of memory (typical on KC705 FPGA board) vs.
> only 128MBytes of low memory, which is highly desirable. But performance
> comparison of these two configurations seems to make little sense.
> OTOH performance comparison of highmem variants with and without
> cache aliasing would show the quality of our cache flushing code.

I'd assumed the patch was making cache coloring available as a
performance tweak. But you appear to be saying that the (high) memory
is simply unavailable for such cores without this change. I think.

Please ensure that v3's changelog explains the full reason for the
patch. Assume you're talking to all-the-worlds-an-x86 dummies, OK?



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