Hi Andrew, On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:20:23PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > That's a pretty big improvement for a rather fake test case. I wonder > how much benefit we'd see with real workloads? The same discussion happened about the zero page in general and there's no easy answer. I seem to recall that it was dropped at some point and then we reintroduced the zero page later. Most of the time it won't be worth it, it's just a few pathological compute loads that benefits IIRC. So I'm overall positive about it (after it's stable). Because this is done the right way (i.e. to allocate an hugepage at the first wp fault, and to fallback exclusively if compaction fails) it will help much less than the 4k zero pages if the zero pages are scattered over the address space and not contiguous (it only helps if there are 512 of them in a row). OTOH if they're contiguous, the huge zero pages will perform better than the 4k zero pages. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>