Re: [PATCH] Permit inode & dentry hash tables to be allocated > MAX_ORDER size

[Andi Kleen]

> Since vmalloc() maps the pages with small pagetable entries (unlike most
> of the rest of the kernel address space), do you think the interleaving
> will outweigh any negative TLB effects?  

I think so, yes (assuming you run the benchmark on all CPUs)

-Andi
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