From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C19CE5F0001 for ; Sat, 30 May 2009 16:39:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4A21999E.5050606@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 16:39:58 -0400 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] Support for sanitization flag in low-level page allocator References: <20090528090836.GB6715@elte.hu> <20090528125042.28c2676f@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <84144f020905300035g1d5461f9n9863d4dcdb6adac0@mail.gmail.com> <20090530075033.GL29711@oblivion.subreption.com> <4A20E601.9070405@cs.helsinki.fi> <20090530082048.GM29711@oblivion.subreption.com> <20090530173428.GA20013@elte.hu> <20090530180333.GH6535@oblivion.subreption.com> <20090530182113.GA25237@elte.hu> <20090530184534.GJ6535@oblivion.subreption.com> <20090530190828.GA31199@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20090530190828.GA31199@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Ingo Molnar Cc: "Larry H." , Pekka Enberg , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , linux-mm@kvack.org, Ingo Molnar , pageexec@freemail.hu, Linus Torvalds List-ID: Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Larry H. wrote: >> On 20:21 Sat 30 May , Ingo Molnar wrote: >>> Freeing keys is an utter slow-path (if not then the clearing is >>> the least of our performance worries), so any clearing cost is >>> in the noise. Furthermore, kzfree() is an existing facility >>> already in use. If it's reused by your patches that brings >>> further advantages: kzfree(), if it has any bugs, will be fixed. >>> While if you add a parallel facility kzfree() stays broken. >> Have you benchmarked the addition of these changes? I would like >> to see benchmarks done for these (crypto api included), since you >> are proposing them. > > You have it the wrong way around. _You_ have the burden of proof > here really, you are trying to get patches into the upstream kernel. > I'm not obliged to do your homework for you. I might be wrong, and > you can prove me wrong. Larry's patches do not do what you propose they should do, so why would he have to benchmark your idea? -- All rights reversed. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org