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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 230-objrmap fixes for 2.6.3-mjb2
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 22:05:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040303210554.GW4922@dualathlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14830000.1078340481@[10.1.1.4]>

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 01:01:21PM -0600, Dave McCracken wrote:
> The point would be to have a way of finding and skipping the locked page
> before we go look up the vmas for it.  2.4 doesn't have that problem
> because it's working from the vma.

it has the same problem because we scan those pages always at the
physical side and always at the pagetable side. we could avoid scanning
them at the pagetable side, but we scan them anyways exactly to be able
to call mark_page_accessed that will move the page in the active list,
so the physical side doesn't waste an excessive amount of cpu on
unfreeable mlocked pages. 

the trick is to keep marking those mlocked pages as accessed (so they go
into the active list) every time we encounter them and we find them
mlocked, so they're not in our way all the time.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-03 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-03  7:09 230-objrmap fixes for 2.6.3-mjb2 Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-03 10:58 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-03 15:46   ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-03-03 15:58     ` Dave McCracken
2004-03-03 16:08       ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-03-03 19:04         ` Mike Kravetz
2004-03-04 15:41         ` Rik van Riel
2004-03-04 15:47           ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-03-04 16:21             ` Rik van Riel
2004-03-04 17:03           ` Matt Mackall
2004-03-03 16:57     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-03 17:07       ` Dave McCracken
2004-03-03 18:39         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-03 18:44           ` Dave McCracken
2004-03-03 18:51             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-03 19:01               ` Dave McCracken
2004-03-03 21:05                 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2004-03-03 21:39               ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-03-03 23:16                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-03 17:06   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-03 15:54 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-03-03 16:14   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-25 21:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-26 11:57   ` Hugh Dickins
2004-03-26 18:02     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-26 23:25       ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-27 14:24         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-27 15:29         ` Dave McCracken

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