Re: [PATCH 1/8] THP: Use real address for NUMA policy

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 01:17:28PM -0500, Alex Thorlton wrote:
> > Could you add some actual descriptions to these patches that say why you
> > are doing this, and why this particular patch is needed and implemented
> > this way?
> > 
> > You mention that THP is slow for you, then go on to implement some
> > non-cached page zero'ing, but you never quite connect the dots.
> 
> I actually didn't write these patches (made a few tweaks to get them
> running on the latest kernel though).  They were submitted last July by 
> Peter Zijlstra.  Andi Kleen suggested that I re-run some of my tests
> using these patches to see whether they solved my issue.  I just
> included my updated patches so that people could confirm that I'd pulled
> them forward properly.
> 
> The messages from the original submission can be found here:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/20/165

Here's more up-to-date version: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/20/337

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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