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From: Zoltan Menyhart <Zoltan.Menyhart@free.fr>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Zoltan Menyhart <Zoltan.Menyhart@bull.net>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Any reason for passing "tlb" to "free_pgtables()" by address?
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 23:50:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <445FBD1B.6080404@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605051337520.6945@blonde.wat.veritas.com>

Hugh Dickins wrote:

> Personally I'd prefer not to make your change right now - it seems
> a shame to make that cosmetic change without addressing the real
> latency issue; but I've no strong feeling against your patch.

Could you please explain what your plans are?

How much do you think it is worth to optimize "free_pgtables()",
knowing that:
- PTE, PMD and PUD pages are freed seldom (wrt. the leaf pages)
- The number of these pages is much more less than
   that of the leaf pages.

Thanks,

Zoltan

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-08 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-05 10:53 Zoltan Menyhart
2006-05-05 12:41 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-05-08 21:50   ` Zoltan Menyhart [this message]
2006-05-09  1:40     ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-09 11:23     ` Hugh Dickins
2006-05-09 19:30       ` Zoltan Menyhart

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