Tunables for 2.23?

Andi Kleen andi@firstfloor.org
Wed Jan 6 01:40:00 GMT 2016


On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 02:43:18PM -0600, Paul E. Murphy wrote:
> Siddhesh has been working on Tunables on his siddhesh/tunables branch. I'd done
> some extra work to extend it to support dynamic TLE [1]. This is needed to get
> good TLE performance from power8 hardware.
> 
> I'd like to see this cleaned up and included in the next release. Is this still
> practical?
> 
> Are there still others outside of ppc who would like to see this feature
> get in for this release?

Yes I would like it for x86 too. It's very useful.

Last time I tested it I ran into some issue (elision didn't work
anymore).I'll double check this. But don't let me stop you from
merging.

-Andi

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