From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pg0-f72.google.com (mail-pg0-f72.google.com [74.125.83.72]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 447B46B0390 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2017 11:23:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pg0-f72.google.com with SMTP id x125so116287239pgb.5 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2017 08:23:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com. [148.163.156.1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u19si4075404plj.273.2017.03.28.08.23.09 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 28 Mar 2017 08:23:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pps.filterd (m0098404.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.20/8.16.0.20) with SMTP id v2SFE2Q0023888 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2017 11:23:08 -0400 Received: from e17.ny.us.ibm.com (e17.ny.us.ibm.com [129.33.205.207]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 29ft6f8wwv-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2017 11:23:08 -0400 Received: from localhost by e17.ny.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Tue, 28 Mar 2017 11:23:07 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 16/17] mm: Let arch choose the initial value of task size References: <1490153823-29241-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1490153823-29241-17-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <87vaqtabw8.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:52:58 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87vaqtabw8.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <6c8904b5-c4a0-b828-6aad-14220efc5236@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Michael Ellerman , benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, "Kirill A . Shutemov" , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton On Tuesday 28 March 2017 04:47 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote: > "Aneesh Kumar K.V" writes: > >> As we start supporting larger address space (>128TB), we want to give >> architecture a control on max task size of an application which is different >> from the TASK_SIZE. For ex: ppc64 needs to track the base page size of a segment >> and it is copied from mm_context_t to PACA on each context switch. If we know that >> application has not used an address range above 128TB we only need to copy >> details about 128TB range to PACA. This will help in improving context switch >> performance by avoiding larger copy operation. >> >> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov >> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org >> Cc: Andrew Morton >> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V >> --- >> fs/exec.c | 10 +++++++++- >> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > I'll need an ACK at least on this from someone in mm land. > > I assume there's no way I can merge patch 17 without this? That is correct. I didn't add linux-mm to cc for rest of the patches. They are all ppc64 specific and can be found at https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2017-March/155726.html -aneesh -- 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