On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 02:33:29PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > 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. Sure, I'll do my best to be brutal. Avi, Andrea please fire off to me a git tree or patch bomb for benchmarking. Please include all the patches you think it needs to go fast, including any config hints etc... If you'd like numbers with and without a given set of patches, just let me know. -chris -- 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>