On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Avi Kivity wrote: > > Please run them in conjunction with Mel Gorman's memory compaction, otherwise > fragmentation may prevent huge pages from being instantiated. .. and then please run them in conjunction with somebody doing "make -j16" on the kernel at the same time, or just generally doing real work for a few days before hand. The point is, there are benchmarks, and then there is real life. If we _know_ some feature only works for benchmarks, it should be discounted as such. It's like a compiler that is tuned for specint - at some point the numbers lose a lot of their meaning. Linus -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>