Re: [PATCH 00/21] mm: Preemptibility -v6
From: Peter Zijlstra <hidden>
Date: 2011-01-18 10:30:21
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On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 23:12 -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
I understand you're intending to update your preemptible mmu_gather patchset against 2.6.38-rc1, so I've spent a while looking through (and running) your last posted version (plus its two fixes from BenH). I've had no problems in running it, I can't tell if it's quicker or slower than the unpatched. The only argument against the patchset, really, would be performance: and though there are no bad reports on it as yet, I do wonder how we proceed if a genuine workload shows up which is adversely affected. Oh well, silly to worry about the hypothetical I suppose.
Wow, _HUGE_ review, thanks! I'll slowly make my way through it when I do the rebase against .38-rc1, most suggestions look very good indeed. And as to performance, there's the no-regression report from Yanmin running it through the Intel test farm. However Nick also had a particular workload he wanted to test, Nick, do you think you've got a few spare minutes to dig that workload up and give it a run? But I guess you're right, there's always a chance someone hits something, and I guess there's nothing to it but to deal with it when that comes.. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>