Re: [PATCH] page coloring for 2.5.59 kernel, version 1

William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-28T03:57:36Z

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:47:26PM -0500, Jason Papadopoulos wrote:
> This is yet another holding action, a port of my page coloring patch
> to the 2.5 kernel. This is a minimal port (x86 only) intended to get
> some testing done; once again the algorithm used is the same as in
> previous patches. There are several cleanups and removed 2.4-isms that
> make the code somewhat more compact, though.
> I'll be experimenting with other coloring schemes later this week.
> www.boo.net/~jasonp/page_color-2.5.59-20030127.patch
> Feedback of any sort welcome.

set_num_colors() needs to go downstairs under arch/ Some of the
current->pid checks look a bit odd esp. for GFP_ATOMIC and/or
in_interrupt() cases. I'm not sure why this is a config option; it
should be mandatory. I also wonder about the interaction of this with
the per-cpu lists. This may really want to be something like a matrix
with (cpu, color) indices to find the right list; trouble is, there's a
high potential for many pages to be trapped there. mapnr's (page -
zone->zone_mem_map etc.) are being used for pfn's; this may raise
issues if zones' required alignments aren't num_colors*PAGE_SIZE or
larger. proc_misc.c can be used instead of page_color_init(). ->free_list
can be removed. get_rand() needs locking, per-zone state. Useful stuff.

--wli