On 09/03/2010 05:06 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
We don't have any quantitative data on the effect of these excess tlb flushes, which makes it difficult to decide which kernel versions should receive this patch. Help?
I assume it is a relatively small performance optimization, as well as a nice code cleanup ... so probably no real hurry to get it upstream (next time you send Linus mm patches?), and no real reason to have it backported to a -stable kernel either. -- All rights reversed -- 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>