On 09/29/2013 04:50 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 04:41:02PM -0400, Austin S Hemmelgarn > wrote: >> While I understand that you want decisive proof that it provides >> an improvement, does it specifically matter if the option is >> unused by most people and doesn't result in a negative >> performance hit when used? > > Just having the option for no good reason at all is a no-no.
I'm not saying that should just be included without substantiation, I simply mean that the reason to include it (as far as I am concerned) is that it doesn't break anything and provides something useful that isn't in the kernel already. Despite this I am still happy to benchmark it to provide some more concrete proof. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/