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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
	Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>,
	Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: shared pagetable benchmarking
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 08:39:12 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212280837340.2443-100000@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E0D4B83.FEE220B8@digeo.com>

On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Yup.  Ingo said at the time:
> 
>   It would be faster to iterate the pagecache mapping's radix tree
>   and the pagetables at once, but it's also *much* more complex. I have
>   tried to implement it and had to unroll the change - mixing radix tree
>   walking and pagetable walking and getting all the VM details right is
>   really complex - especially considering all the re-lookup race checks
>   that have to occur upon IO.
> 
> But find_get_pages() is well-suited to this, and was not in place when
> he did this work.

i agree that find_get_pages() would simplify this work. I did not consider
group-lookup - i tried to implement an algorithm that had a single-page
scope, to keep the amount of locked pages to the minimum.

	Ingo

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-28  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-20 11:11 Andrew Morton
2002-12-20 11:13 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-20 16:30 ` Dave McCracken
2002-12-20 19:59   ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-23 16:15     ` Dave McCracken
2002-12-23 23:54       ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-27  9:39       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-12-27  9:58         ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-27 15:59           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-12-27 20:02             ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-27 20:16               ` Dave McCracken
2002-12-27 20:18                 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-27 20:45                   ` Dave McCracken
2002-12-27 20:50                     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-27 23:56                       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-12-28  0:45                       ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-12-28  2:34                         ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-28  3:10                           ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-28  6:58                             ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-28  7:39                               ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2002-12-28  7:47                               ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-28 23:28                                 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-28  3:19                           ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-12-23 18:19 ` Dave McCracken

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