From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
hughd@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 2/2] mm: do not reset mm->free_area_cache on every single munmap
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:57:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2vcmxp609.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120223150034.2c757b3a@cuia.bos.redhat.com> (Rik van Riel's message of "Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:00:34 -0500")
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> writes:
> Some programs have a large number of VMAs, and make frequent calls
> to mmap and munmap. Having munmap constantly cause the search
> pointer for get_unmapped_area to get reset can cause a significant
> slowdown for such programs.
This would be a much nicer patch if you split it into one that merges
all the copy'n'paste code and another one that actually implements
the new algorithm.
-Andi
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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
hughd@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 2/2] mm: do not reset mm->free_area_cache on every single munmap
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:57:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2vcmxp609.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120223150034.2c757b3a@cuia.bos.redhat.com> (Rik van Riel's message of "Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:00:34 -0500")
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> writes:
> Some programs have a large number of VMAs, and make frequent calls
> to mmap and munmap. Having munmap constantly cause the search
> pointer for get_unmapped_area to get reset can cause a significant
> slowdown for such programs.
This would be a much nicer patch if you split it into one that merges
all the copy'n'paste code and another one that actually implements
the new algorithm.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-23 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-23 19:54 [PATCH -mm 0/2] speed up arch_get_unmapped_area Rik van Riel
2012-02-23 19:54 ` Rik van Riel
2012-02-23 19:56 ` [PATCH -mm 1/2] mm: fix quadratic behaviour in get_unmapped_area_topdown Rik van Riel
2012-02-23 19:56 ` Rik van Riel
2012-02-23 21:50 ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-23 21:50 ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-23 21:57 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-02-23 21:57 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-02-23 20:00 ` [PATCH -mm 2/2] mm: do not reset mm->free_area_cache on every single munmap Rik van Riel
2012-02-23 20:00 ` Rik van Riel
2012-02-23 21:56 ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-23 21:56 ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-27 16:12 ` Rik van Riel
2012-02-27 16:12 ` Rik van Riel
2012-03-20 18:32 ` Rik van Riel
2012-03-20 18:32 ` Rik van Riel
2012-03-20 19:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-03-20 19:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-03-20 19:06 ` Rik van Riel
2012-03-20 19:06 ` Rik van Riel
2012-02-23 21:57 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2012-02-23 21:57 ` Andi Kleen
2012-02-27 16:13 ` Rik van Riel
2012-02-27 16:13 ` Rik van Riel
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