On 11/09/2012 07:23 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > FWIW, kernbench is actually (and surprisingly) showing a slight performance > *improvement* with this patchset, over vanilla 3.7-rc3, as I mentioned in > my other email to Dave. > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/7/428 > > I don't think I can dismiss it as an experimental error, because I am seeing > those results consistently.. I'm trying to find out what's behind that. The only numbers in that link are in the date. :) Let's see the numbers, please. If you really have performance improvement to the memory allocator (or something else) here, then surely it can be pared out of your patches and merged quickly by itself. Those kinds of optimizations are hard to come by! -- 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>