On Tue, 10 Oct 2017, Michal Hocko wrote: > > But, let's be honest, this leaves us with an option that nobody is ever > > going to turn on. IOW, nobody except a very small portion of our users > > will ever see any benefit from this. > > But aren't those small groups who would like to squeeze every single > cycle out from the page allocator path the targeted audience?
Those have long sine raised the white flag and succumbed to the featuritis. Resigned to try to keep the bloat restricted to a couple of cores so that the rest of the cores stay usable.
