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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
	akpm@osdl.org, Peter Zijlstra <peter@programming.kicks-ass.net>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: use-once-cleanup testing
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 08:05:39 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0601160803550.10902@cuia.boston.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43C883AA.30101@cyberone.com.au>

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:

> Yes, I found that also doing use-once on mapped pages caused fairly huge 
> slowdowns in some cases. File IO could much more easily cause X and its 
> applications to get swapped out.

We can get rid of that effect easily by adding reclaim_mapped
logic to the inactive list scan.  The zone previous_priority
will keep track of what to do when we start a scan...

> Possibly. I think moving unmapped use-once over to PG_useonce first, and
> tidying the weird warts and special cases (that don't make sense) from
> vmscan is a good first step.

Agreed, cleaning up the code first will make it a lot easier
to make improvements bit by bit.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-16 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-14  0:05 Marcelo Tosatti
2006-01-14  4:52 ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-14  4:53   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2006-01-14  8:44   ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-01-14  8:51     ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-16 13:06       ` Rik van Riel
2006-01-16 13:05   ` Rik van Riel [this message]

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