From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rfc] increase struct page size?!
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 00:19:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070518001905.54cafeeb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070518040854.GA15654@wotan.suse.de>
On Fri, 18 May 2007 06:08:54 +0200 Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:
> Many batch operations on struct page are completely random,
But they shouldn't be: we should aim to place physically contiguous pages
into logically contiguous pagecache slots, for all the reasons we
discussed.
If/when that happens, there will be a *lot* of locality of reference
against the pageframes in a lot of important codepaths.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-18 7:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-18 4:08 Nick Piggin
2007-05-18 4:47 ` David Miller, Nick Piggin
2007-05-18 5:12 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-18 5:22 ` David Miller, Nick Piggin
2007-05-18 5:31 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-18 18:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-18 7:19 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-05-18 7:32 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-18 7:43 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-18 7:59 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-18 9:42 ` David Howells
2007-05-19 1:30 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-18 12:06 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-18 15:42 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-05-19 1:22 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-19 17:53 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-20 22:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-05-18 18:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-18 20:37 ` Luck, Tony
2007-05-21 6:28 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-05-19 1:25 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-19 2:03 ` [rfc] increase struct page size?! (now sparsemem vmemmap) Christoph Lameter
2007-05-19 15:43 ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-05-19 18:15 ` [rfc] increase struct page size?! William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-19 18:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-20 4:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-05-20 12:56 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-21 17:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-22 0:30 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-05-22 0:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-22 0:58 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-05-22 9:44 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-05-19 22:09 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-20 7:26 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-21 9:12 ` Helge Hafting
2007-05-21 9:45 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-20 5:22 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-20 8:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-20 9:25 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-21 8:08 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-21 9:27 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-21 11:26 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-22 0:52 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-21 22:43 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-22 1:08 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-22 1:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-22 1:39 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-22 1:57 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-22 5:04 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-22 6:24 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-22 10:59 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-21 9:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-05-21 17:06 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-20 17:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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