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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Roman Peniaev <r.peniaev@gmail.com>,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org,
	Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>,
	Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>,
	Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@rock-chips.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: Keep a separate lazy-free list
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 14:49:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160422144957.64619ee9b19991e4fdf89668@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160415111431.GL19990@nuc-i3427.alporthouse.com>

On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 12:14:31 +0100 Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:

> > > purge_fragmented_blocks() manages per-cpu lists, so that looks safe
> > > under its own rcu_read_lock.
> > >
> > > Yes, it looks feasible to remove the purge_lock if we can relax sync.
> > 
> > what is still left is waiting on vmap_area_lock for !sync mode.
> > but probably is not that bad.
> 
> Ok, that's bit beyond my comfort zone with a patch to change the free
> list handling. I'll chicken out for the time being, atm I am more
> concerned that i915.ko may call set_page_wb() frequently on individual
> pages.

Nick Piggin's vmap rewrite.  20x (or more) faster. 
https://lwn.net/Articles/285341/

10 years ago, never finished.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-22 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-12  6:57 Chris Wilson
2016-04-14 13:13 ` Roman Peniaev
2016-04-14 13:49   ` Chris Wilson
2016-04-14 14:44     ` Roman Peniaev
2016-04-15 11:07       ` [PATCH v2] " Chris Wilson
2016-04-15 11:54         ` Roman Peniaev
2016-04-15 11:14       ` [PATCH] " Chris Wilson
2016-04-22 21:49         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2016-04-23 11:21           ` Roman Peniaev

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