On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 07:52:10AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
Without repeatable hard numbers such code just gets into the
kernel and bitrots there as new CPU generations come in - a few
years down the line the original decisions often degrade to pure
noise. We've been there, we've done that, we don't want to
repeat it.
<sorry, for late answer..>
Hard numbers are hard.
I've checked some workloads: Mosbench, NPB, specjvm2008. Most of time the
patchset doesn't show any difference (within run-to-run deviation).
On NPB it recovers THP regression, but it's probably not enough to make
decision.
It would be nice if somebody test the patchset on other system or
workload. Especially, if the configuration shows regression with
THP enabled.
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Kirill A. Shutemov