nter stats for '/home/balbir/parallel_pagefault': 7191619.223977 task-clock-msecs # 23.955 CPUs 422579 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 88 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 91946060 page-faults # 0.013 M/sec 5957054385619 cycles # 828.333 M/sec 1058117350365 instructions # 0.178 IPC 9161776218 cache-references # 1.274 M/sec 1920494280 cache-misses # 0.267 M/sec 300.218764862 seconds time elapsed Data from Prarit (kernel compile with make -j64 on a 64 CPU/32G machine) For a single run Without patch real 27m8.988s user 87m24.916s sys 382m6.037s With patch real 4m18.607s user 84m58.943s sys 50m52.682s With config turned off real 4m54.972s user 90m13.456s sys 50m19.711s NOTE: The data looks counterintuitive due to the increased performance with the patch, even over the config being turned off. We probably need more runs, but so far all testing has shown that the patches definitely help. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Andi Kleen Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Paul Menage Cc: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds ïF’Жlx