Re: [patch 04/17] Add pagetable accessors to pack and unpack pagetable entries

Andi Kleen
2007-04-04T11:49:31Z

> > paravirt, patching
> > ezr Linux 2.6.21- 1000 0.25 0.53 31.8 34.4 10.1 1.04 5.44 730. 1583 4600
> > ezr Linux 2.6.21- 1000 0.26 0.55 32.1 35.2 13.3 1.03 5.48 748. 1589 4606
> > ezr Linux 2.6.21- 1000 0.26 0.54 32.0 34.9 14.1 1.04 5.43 752. 1606 4647
>
> i guess this pretty much makes the case for patching ...

Yes, we definitely want to patch. Still it's unclear why it still shows slower stat.
Or could that be benchmark noise?

-Andi