* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Desktops will only benefit when they bloat to ~8GB RAM and 1-2GB firefox > > RSS, probably not so far in the future. > > 1-2GB firefox RSS is reality for me. > > Btw., there's another workload that could be cache sensitive, 'git grep': > > aldebaran:~/linux> perf stat -e cycles -e instructions -e dtlb-loads -e dtlb-load-misses --repeat 5 git grep arca >/dev/null > > Performance counter stats for 'git grep arca' (5 runs): > > 1882712774 cycles ( +- 0.074% ) > 1153649442 instructions # 0.613 IPC ( +- 0.005% ) > 518815167 dTLB-loads ( +- 0.035% ) > 3028951 dTLB-load-misses ( +- 1.223% ) > > 0.597161428 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.065% ) Sidenote: you might want to try the cool new threaded git grep from upstream Git project: git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git cd git make -j Beyond being faster, it will also probably show a bigger hugetlb speedup, as the effective per core (and per hyperthread) cache set is smaller than for a single-threaded git grep. Ingo -- 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>