On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 01:17:28PM -0500, Alex Thorlton wrote: > > Could you add some actual descriptions to these patches that say why you > > are doing this, and why this particular patch is needed and implemented > > this way? > > > > You mention that THP is slow for you, then go on to implement some > > non-cached page zero'ing, but you never quite connect the dots. > > I actually didn't write these patches (made a few tweaks to get them > running on the latest kernel though). They were submitted last July by > Peter Zijlstra. Andi Kleen suggested that I re-run some of my tests > using these patches to see whether they solved my issue. I just > included my updated patches so that people could confirm that I'd pulled > them forward properly. > > The messages from the original submission can be found here: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/20/165
Here's more up-to-date version: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/20/337 -- Kirill A. Shutemov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
