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.38 introduced lot's of new stuff [1], so regressions can occur I guess. But I know that it'll get fixed. By the time this news got to HN there's probably some
by moondowner 16y ago
.38 introduced lot's of new stuff [1], so regressions can occur I guess.
But I know that it'll get fixed. By the time this news got to HN there's probably someone working on it.
[1] http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_38 http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_38
- jedbrown 16y agoTransparent huge pages (also new in 2.6.38) have caused about 5% degradation in memory bandwidth (measured by STREAM benchmarks and other kernels, independent of the use of software prefetch) on my machines. This is somewhat strange because huge pages should help this benchmark.