>
> Ben McCann writes:
>
> > Note the wall-clock time increases from 18 minutes to almost
> > 22 minutes and the number of page faults increases from 188,000
> > to 298,500. It seems something is invalidating pages too
> > aggressively in your patch.
> >
> > Is there something I can tune to improve this? Is there an
> > experiment I can run to help fine-tune your VM changes?
>
> For the past few weeks, VM patches and benchmark results have been
> going back and forth. I start to worry that Linux is being tuned
> to run benchmarks, not to run useful software. Please be careful.
Best insurance against this concern is to test alpha patches against
favorite useful application and report results to developers.
-Mike
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