From: "Moussa A. Ba" <moussa.a.ba@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, adobriyan@gmail.com, mpm@selenic.com,
mel@csn.ul.ie, yinghan@google.com, npiggin@suse.de,
jaredeh@gmail.com, moussa.a.ba@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH 0/1] pagemap clear_refs: modify to specify anon or mapped vma clearing
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:56:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A6930F5.3090008@gmail.com> (raw)
This patch makes the clear_refs proc interface a bit more versatile. It
adds support for clearing either anonymous, file mapped pages or both.
echo 1 > /proc/pid/clear_refs clears ANON pages
echo 2 > /proc/pid/clear_refs clears file mapped pages
echo 3 > /proc/pid/clear_refs clears all pages
Selectively clearing pages has a measurable impact on performance as it
decreases the number of page walks. We have been using this interface
and this adds flexibility to the user space application implementing the
reference clearing.
Moussa.
next reply other threads:[~2009-07-24 4:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-24 3:56 Moussa A. Ba [this message]
2009-07-24 4:30 ` [PATCH 0/1] pagemap clear_refs: modify to specify anon or mapped vma clearing Matt Mackall
2009-07-24 5:46 ` Moussa A. Ba
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