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On 06/01/2026 04:38, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 04:17:36PM +0000, Ryan Roberts wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> A recent change to vmalloc caused some performance benchmark regressions (see
>> [1]). I'm attempting to fix that (and at the same time signficantly improve
> 
> Unfortunately, there was no [1] ... 

Oops:

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/66919a28-bc81-49c9-b68f-dd7c73395a0d@arm.com/

(it's the same link as Closes: tag in patch 2).

> I'm not sure this benchmark is
> really doing anything representative. 

Yes that's probably fair, but my argument is that we should either care about
the numbers or delete the tests. It seems we don't want to delete the tests.

> But the performance improvement
> is certainly welcome; we'd deferred work on that for later.

OK, let's focus on the "performance improvement" motivation instead of the
"regression fixing" part :)

Thanks,
Ryan