On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 02:34:55PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
Kirill's git test suite runs did show that it _can_ hurt in some cases.
And see last use-case for how much it can hurt. :)
It shouldn't differs much for the same *number* of pages between [u]archs
unless setup of the pte is significantly more expensive or page fault is
faster.
But of course, I can move FAULT_AROUND_PAGES to arch/x86/ and let
architecture mantainers to decide if they want the feature. ;)
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