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Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5 V2] Huge page backed user-space stacks
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:17:10 -0700 Eric Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Certain workloads benefit if their data or text segments are backed by
> huge pages.

oh.  As this is a performance patch, it would be much better if its
description contained some performance measurement results!  Please.