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From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFT][PATCH 2/2] pagefault scalability alternative
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:01:41 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0508230757410.5224@goblin.wat.veritas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050823053941.GB14497@wotan.suse.de>

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> Hmm - this means that a large munmap has to take another lock
> for each freed page right? That could get a bit expensive.

I do hope not!  Where do you see that extra lock per page?

(The patch doesn't bring in locking per page-table-entry,
just locking per page-table.)

Hugh
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-23  7:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-22 21:27 [RFT][PATCH 0/2] " Hugh Dickins
2005-08-22 21:29 ` [RFT][PATCH 1/2] " Hugh Dickins
2005-08-22 21:31 ` [RFT][PATCH 2/2] " Hugh Dickins
2005-08-23  0:25   ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-23  7:22     ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-23 11:20       ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-23 13:06         ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-23 13:29           ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-23 16:38             ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-23  5:39   ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-23  7:01     ` Hugh Dickins [this message]
2005-08-22 22:29 ` [RFT][PATCH 0/2] " Christoph Lameter
2005-08-23  0:32   ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-23  7:04     ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-23  8:14   ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-23 10:03     ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-23 16:30     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-23 16:43       ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-08-23 18:29       ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-27 22:10       ` Avi Kivity

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