From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <445FBD1B.6080404@free.fr> Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 23:50:19 +0200 From: Zoltan Menyhart MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Any reason for passing "tlb" to "free_pgtables()" by address? References: <445B2EBD.4020803@bull.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Zoltan Menyhart , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- 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