linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 00/11] PCID and improved laziness

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Date:   Wed, 21 Jun 2017 11:23:52 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/11] PCID and improved laziness

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:22 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org> wrote:
> There are three performance benefits here:

Side note: can you post the actual performance numbers, even if only
from some silly test program on just one platform? Things like lmbench
pipe benchmark or something?

Or maybe you did, and I just missed it. But when talking about
performance, I'd really like to always see some actual numbers.

                 Linus