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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: page_add/remove_rmap costs
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:45:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020725024535.GB2907@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0207241319550.3086-100000@imladris.surriel.com>

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> Then again, if the per-vma pfn->pte lookup is feasible, we may not need
>> the pte_chain at all...

On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 01:24:13PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> It is feasible, both davem and bcrl made code to this effect. The
> only problem with that code is that it gets ugly quick after mremap.

I actually took an axe to mremap recently, and althought the pieces
never came back together into working code, it's clear that it's far
from optimal. It's doing a virtual sweep over the region and repeating
the pgd -> pmd -> pte traversals for each pte. So invading that territory
may well be justifiable on more grounds than rmap itself.

I may revisit mremap.c at some point in the distant future if that
tweaking alone is considered valuable.


Cheers,
Bill
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-25  2:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-24  6:33 Andrew Morton
2002-07-24  6:48 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-24 16:24 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-24 20:15   ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-24 20:21     ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-24 20:28       ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-25  2:35         ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-25  3:08     ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-25  3:14       ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-07-25  4:21       ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-25  2:45   ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-07-25  4:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-25  5:14   ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-25  5:15     ` John Levon
2002-07-25  5:30       ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-25  5:47       ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-25  5:42         ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-25  5:59           ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-25  7:09   ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-26  7:33 ` Daniel Phillips

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