On Tue, 22 May 2007, Andy Whitcroft wrote:

> I do not have performance data on this round of patches yet, but
> measurements on the initial PPC64 implementation showed a small
> but measurable improvement.

Well the performance tests that I did on x86_64 showed a reduction of the 
performance of virt_to_page from 18us to 9us. So I think we are fine.

> This stack is against v2.6.22-rc1-mm1.  It has been compile, boot
> and lightly tested on x86_64, ia64 and PPC64.  Sparc64 as been
> compiled but not booted.

Can we get that into mm soon? There are potentially other arches that also 
may want to run their own vmemmap functions for this and I would like to 
have an easy way to tinker around with a 4M vmemmap size for IA64.

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