From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Piggin Message-Id: <20060119192131.11913.27564.sendpatchset@linux.site> Subject: [patch 0/6] mm: optimisations and page ref simplifications Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:22:42 +0100 (CET) Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton Cc: Nick Piggin , Linux Memory Management , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-ID: In the following patchset (against 2.6.16-rc1-git2), patches 1-4 reduce the number of locks and atomic operations required in some critical page manipulation paths. Patches 5 and 6 help simplify some tricky race avoidance code at the cost of possibly a very minor performance hit in page reclaim on some architectures. If they need any more justification they will be needed for lockless pagecache. Do these look OK? Thanks, Nick -- 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