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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] Virtual huge zero page
On 10/01/2012 10:26 AM, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
>> It is well known that microbenchmarks can be horribly misleading. What
>> led to Kirill investigating huge zero page in the first place was the
>> fact that some applications/macrobenchmarks benefit, and I think those
>> are the right thing to look at.
>
> The whole point of the two microbenchmarks was to measure the worst
> cases for both scenarios and I think that was useful. Real life using
> zero pages are going to be somewhere in that range.
>

... and I think it would be worthwhile to know which effect dominates
(or neither, in which case it doesn't matter).

Overall, I'm okay with either as long as we don't lock down 2 MB when
there isn't a huge zero page in use.

-hpa



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