On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 11:19 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Seriously, though, how much does it matter? All the above seems likely > to do is to drown the signal by adding noise.
I don't think so. > > If the parallel (threaded) checksumming is faster, which theory says it > should and microbenchmarking confirms, how important are the > macrobenchmarks? Seriously, micro benchmarks are very misleading. I spent time on this patch, and found no changes on real workloads. I was excited first, then disappointed. I hope we will find the real issue, as I really don't care of micro benchmarks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
