On 10/01/2012 10:26 AM, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > >> It is well known that microbenchmarks can be horribly misleading. What >> led to Kirill investigating huge zero page in the first place was the >> fact that some applications/macrobenchmarks benefit, and I think those >> are the right thing to look at. > > The whole point of the two microbenchmarks was to measure the worst > cases for both scenarios and I think that was useful. Real life using > zero pages are going to be somewhere in that range. > ... and I think it would be worthwhile to know which effect dominates (or neither, in which case it doesn't matter). Overall, I'm okay with either as long as we don't lock down 2 MB when there isn't a huge zero page in use. -hpa -- 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
