Eric & Chris,
For those interested, here's some of my test results of the LLC caching
patch-set compared to a vanilla 2.6.38 and 2.6.39-rc1 on two SNBs. They
just show some nice gains across the board and I haven't hit any issues
with the patches.
Core i3 2100:
http://openbenchmarking.org/re
Chris posted a big patch series incorporating the cleaned up LLC
caching changes, but there were a bunch of not-ready-yet patches in
there. This is a reduced series that I think is ready, with some
fixes from me. From the final commit:
Improves full-screen openarena on my laptop 20.3% +/- 4.