Re: [PATCH 0/6] loglevel=pci:8,acpi:8,apic=8 support v6

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Sep 18 2008 - 14:39:53 EST


Jason Baron wrote:

in my testing there was no significant difference between pre-filtering
vs. not built in. However, there was a measureable affect of having them
built in vs. not built in.


<somewhat irrelevant rant>

Okay, I'm so bloody sick of hearing people justifying bloat by saying "no measurable difference." That only means that you don't have GROSS bloat. Unless you have real statistics to the contrary, most people's performance testing is at the very best accurate to 5-10%. This is hardly "no bloat".

</somewhat irrelevant rant>

-hpa
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