From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>,
x86@kernel.org, William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org,
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/16] mm: use vm_unmapped_area() in hugetlbfs on i386 architecture
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:48:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <509993A5.2000605@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121106143826.dc3b960c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On 11/06/2012 05:38 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Nov 2012 14:47:06 -0800
> Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> wrote:
>
>> Update the i386 hugetlb_get_unmapped_area function to make use of
>> vm_unmapped_area() instead of implementing a brute force search.
>
> The x86_64 coloring "fix" wasn't copied into i386?
Only certain 64 bit AMD CPUs have that issue at all.
On x86, page coloring is really not much of an issue.
All the x86-64 patch does is make the x86-64 page
coloring code behave the same way page coloring
does on MIPS, SPARC, ARM, PA-RISC and others...
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-05 22:46 [PATCH 00/16] mm: use augmented rbtrees for finding unmapped areas Michel Lespinasse
2012-11-05 22:46 ` [PATCH 01/16] mm: add anon_vma_lock to validate_mm() Michel Lespinasse
2012-11-05 23:06 ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-06 8:00 ` Michel Lespinasse
2012-11-05 22:46 ` [PATCH 02/16] mm: augment vma rbtree with rb_subtree_gap Michel Lespinasse
2012-11-05 22:47 ` [PATCH 03/16] mm: check rb_subtree_gap correctness Michel Lespinasse
2012-11-06 22:38 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-09 14:13 ` Sasha Levin
2012-11-09 20:06 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-11-12 11:55 ` Michel Lespinasse
2012-11-05 22:47 ` [PATCH 04/16] mm: rearrange vm_area_struct for fewer cache misses Michel Lespinasse
2012-11-05 22:47 ` [PATCH 05/16] mm: vm_unmapped_area() lookup function Michel Lespinasse
2012-11-05 22:47 ` [PATCH 06/16] mm: use vm_unmapped_area() on x86_64 architecture Michel Lespinasse
2012-11-05 22:47 ` [PATCH 07/16] mm: fix cache coloring " Michel Lespinasse
2012-11-06 22:38 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-05 22:47 ` [PATCH 08/16] mm: use vm_unmapped_area() in hugetlbfs Michel Lespinasse
2012-11-05 23:33 ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-05 22:47 ` [PATCH 09/16] mm: use vm_unmapped_area() in hugetlbfs on i386 architecture Michel Lespinasse
2012-11-05 23:07 ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-06 22:38 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-06 22:48 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2012-11-05 22:47 ` [PATCH 10/16] mm: use vm_unmapped_area() on mips architecture Michel Lespinasse
2012-11-05 23:34 ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-06 22:38 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-05 22:47 ` [PATCH 11/16] mm: use vm_unmapped_area() on arm architecture Michel Lespinasse
2012-11-05 23:35 ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-06 22:38 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-05 22:47 ` [PATCH 12/16] mm: use vm_unmapped_area() on sh architecture Michel Lespinasse
2012-11-05 23:35 ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-05 22:47 ` [PATCH 13/16] mm: use vm_unmapped_area() on sparc64 architecture Michel Lespinasse
2012-11-05 23:36 ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-05 22:47 ` [PATCH 14/16] mm: use vm_unmapped_area() in hugetlbfs " Michel Lespinasse
2012-11-05 23:36 ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-05 22:47 ` [PATCH 15/16] mm: use vm_unmapped_area() on sparc32 architecture Michel Lespinasse
2012-11-05 23:37 ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-06 1:25 ` David Miller
2012-11-06 3:13 ` Michel Lespinasse
2012-11-06 7:30 ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-06 17:41 ` David Miller
2012-11-05 22:47 ` [PATCH 16/16] mm: use vm_unmapped_area() in hugetlbfs on tile architecture Michel Lespinasse
2012-11-05 23:37 ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-06 22:11 ` [PATCH 00/16] mm: use augmented rbtrees for finding unmapped areas Andrew Morton
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