From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx175.postini.com [74.125.245.175]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A6F0D6B006C for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 15:57:10 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <50EDD9A5.8060404@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:57:09 -0500 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] mm: remove free_area_cache use in powerpc architecture References: <1357694895-520-1-git-send-email-walken@google.com> <1357694895-520-7-git-send-email-walken@google.com> In-Reply-To: <1357694895-520-7-git-send-email-walken@google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Matt Turner , David Howells , Tony Luck , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On 01/08/2013 08:28 PM, Michel Lespinasse wrote: > As all other architectures have been converted to use vm_unmapped_area(), > we are about to retire the free_area_cache. > > This change simply removes the use of that cache in > slice_get_unmapped_area(), which will most certainly have a > performance cost. Next one will convert that function to use the > vm_unmapped_area() infrastructure and regain the performance. > > Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse Acked-by: Rik van Riel -- 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