From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752994AbZESIGG (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2009 04:06:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752289AbZESIFw (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2009 04:05:52 -0400 Received: from courier.cs.helsinki.fi ([128.214.9.1]:40954 "EHLO mail.cs.helsinki.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752165AbZESIFv (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2009 04:05:51 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] vmscan: make mapped executable pages the first class citizen From: Pekka Enberg To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Wu Fengguang , Andrew Morton , LKML , Elladan , Nick Piggin , Johannes Weiner , Christoph Lameter , KOSAKI Motohiro , Rik van Riel , "tytso@mit.edu" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "minchan.kim@gmail.com" In-Reply-To: <1242719063.26820.457.camel@twins> References: <20090516090005.916779788@intel.com> <20090516090448.410032840@intel.com> <84144f020905182339o5fb1e78eved95c4c20fd9ffa7@mail.gmail.com> <1242719063.26820.457.camel@twins> Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 11:05:51 +0300 Message-Id: <1242720351.20986.0.camel@penberg-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Peter, On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 09:44 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Its a sekrit conspiracy against bloat by making JIT'd crap run > slower :-) > > > Anyway, I just checked, we install tons of mono junk for _2_ > applications, f-spot and tomboy, both are shite and both have > alternatives not requiring this disease. > :-) On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 09:44 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > But seriously, like Kosaka-san already said, anonymous pages are treated > differently from file pages and should not suffer the same problems. OK, thanks for the explanation. The comment is a little bit misleading because I got the impression that we don't care about anon exec pages. Pekka