From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varad...@oracle.com> Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 17:54:53 -0400
> the other question that comes to my mind is: the whole lazy_flush > optimization probably works best when there is exactly one pool, > and no large pools. In most other cases, we'd end up doing a lazy_flush > when we wrap within our pool itself, losing the benefit of that > optimization. > > Given that the lazy_flush is mostly there to avoid regressions for > the older sun4u architectures (which have other hardware bottlenecks > anyway), and this code is rapidly getting messy, does it make sense > to constrain the lazy_flush check to only apply for the 1-pool, > no-large-pool case? I think it's better to have the multiple pools with more often global flushing. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
