Re: [patch 00/14] remap_file_pages protection support

[Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>]

Andreas Mohr wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:31:12AM -0700, Valerie Henson wrote:
>
>>On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 03:51:35PM +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:
>>
>>>I cannot offer much other than some random confirmation that from my own
>>>oprofiling, whatever I did (often running a load test script consisting of
>>>launching 30 big apps at the same time), find_vma basically always showed up
>>>very prominently in the list of vmlinux-based code (always ranking within the
>>>top 4 or 5 kernel hotspots, such as timer interrupts, ACPI idle I/O etc.pp.).
>>>call-tracing showed it originating from mmap syscalls etc., and AFAIR quite
>>>some find_vma activity from oprofile itself.
>>>
>>This is important: Which kernel?
>>
>
>I had some traces still showing find_vma prominently during a profiling run
>just yesterday, with a very fresh 2.6.17-rc4-ck1 (IOW, basically 2.6.17-rc4).
>I added some cache prefetching in the list traversal a while ago, and IIRC
>that improved profiling times there, but cache prefetching is very often
>a bandaid in search for a real solution: a better data-handling algorithm.
>

If you want to try out the patch and see what it does for you, that would be
interesting. I'll repost a slightly cleaned up version in a couple of hours.

Nick
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