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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:16:58 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] i386: Remove page sized slabs for pgds and pmds
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 02:05:54PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Seems that there is a slight benefit but its also barely above noise 
> level.

I already went over the methodological issues with kernel compiles.
You may be able to prove this, but not this way.


-- wli