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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 15:09:34 +1000
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
"Protasevich, Natalie" <Natalie.Protasevich@...sys.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: Make NR_IRQS configurable in Kconfig
Andrew Morton writes:
> > Drawback would be some more TLB misses.
>
> yup. On some (important) architectures - I'm not sure which architectures
> do the bigpage-for-kernel trick.
I looked at optimizing the per-cpu data accessors on PowerPC and only
ever saw fractions of a percent change in overall performance, which
says to me that we don't actually use per-cpu data all that much. So
unless you make per-cpu data really really slow, I doubt that we'll
see any significant performance difference.
Paul.
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