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On 2016-01-05 10:24, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 08:16:52AM -0500, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:
>>> And those embedded devices can almost certainly save more by just not
>>> including the vt layer.
>> And a few pages can make a difference on _any_ device, not just an embedded
>> system.  For a purpose specific system, that can be the difference between
>> fitting the working set in memory and having to hit swap space.
>
> No one has proven any memory savings yet, so why are you saying this is
> noticable?
I didn't mean to imply that the VT subsystem itself was necessarily 
responsible for any space savings, I simply intended to point out that 
savings of a few pages can make a difference.

On that note though, I think I've got something that should work to 
check this across a couple of different configurations, so I'll 
hopefully have results soon.