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 from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
