From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751509AbZCIM4e (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2009 08:56:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751147AbZCIM4Y (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2009 08:56:24 -0400 Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.122.233]:32319 "EHLO mgw-mx06.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751022AbZCIM4Y (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2009 08:56:24 -0400 Message-ID: <49B511E9.8030405@nokia.com> Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:56:09 +0200 From: Aaro Koskinen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mm@kvack.org CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/2] mm: tlb: unmap scalability Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Mar 2009 12:56:11.0028 (UTC) FILETIME=[6BD36D40:01C9A0B6] X-Nokia-AV: Clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, Here's a patch proposal to make unmap to scale linearly on architectures that implement tlb_start_vma() and tlb_end_vma(), by adding range parameters. See for the current problem. The first patch only adds the new parameters. The second one changes the ARM architecture to use those parameters. A similar change should be of course made also for other architectures implementing those routines. The patch was made for 2.6.29-rc7. A. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A41E6B003D for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 08:56:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <49B511E9.8030405@nokia.com> Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:56:09 +0200 From: Aaro Koskinen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/2] mm: tlb: unmap scalability Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello, Here's a patch proposal to make unmap to scale linearly on architectures that implement tlb_start_vma() and tlb_end_vma(), by adding range parameters. See for the current problem. The first patch only adds the new parameters. The second one changes the ARM architecture to use those parameters. A similar change should be of course made also for other architectures implementing those routines. The patch was made for 2.6.29-rc7. A. -- 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