Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: mtrr_cleanup prepare to make gran_size to less 1M

H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-30T18:51:36Z

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
>> * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Applied series to tip:x86/mtrr, thanks!
>> tested them and pushed it out into tip/master.
>
> btw., now that we've got wide enough exposure (a kernel release), could
> we please flip around the default of CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER and make it
> default-y? This feature should only produce a worse result if there's a
> bug in that code, right?
>

Yes. Furthermore, right now the code has to be enabled *and* a kernel
command line option has to be passed. I suspect we eventually want to
runtime-enable it by default, too.

-hpa