From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx200.postini.com [74.125.245.200]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D23D36B00EA for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:06:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4F68D51B.7030501@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:06:03 -0400 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 2/2] mm: do not reset mm->free_area_cache on every single munmap References: <20120223145417.261225fd@cuia.bos.redhat.com> <20120223150034.2c757b3a@cuia.bos.redhat.com> <20120223135614.7c4e02db.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20120320190055.GZ24602@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20120320190055.GZ24602@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mel Gorman , Johannes Weiner , KOSAKI Motohiro , hughd@google.com On 03/20/2012 03:00 PM, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 01:56:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >> We've been playing whack-a-mole with this search for many years. What >> about developing a proper data structure with which to locate a >> suitable-sized hole in O(log(N)) time? > > I intended to implement it a couple of years ago. > > It takes a change to the rbtree code so that when rb_erase and > rb_insert_color are called, proper methods are called to notify the > caller that there's been a rotation (probably calling a new > rb_insert_color_with_metadata(&method(left_rot, right_rot)) ) There are two issues here. 1) We also need the ability to search by address, so we can merge free areas that are adjacent. 2) Hugetlb, shared mappings on architectures with virtually indexed caches (eg. MIPS) need holes that are not only of a certain size, but also fit a certain alignment. To get (2) we are essentially back to tree walking. I am not convinced that that is a lot better than what we are doing today, or worth the extra complexity... -- All rights reversed -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org