Non-linear Remap Vs. VM Cleanup: Performance Hit

["D. Cooper Stevenson" <cooper@cooper.stevenson.name>]

Hello All,

I read the Linus's release for RC1. One of his favorite features in the 
release are, "actually some vm cleanups, where this release is getting 
rid of the largely unused non-linear remapping code (replaced with just 
emulating it with lots of smaller mappings) and unifies the NUMA and 
PROTNONE handling for page tables."

I understand that non-linear page remapping is unused (and, presumably, 
reduces the code base size) but according to the remap_file_pages man 
page (http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/remap_file_pages.2.html) 
non-linear system will be, "eventually be replaced by a slower in-kernel 
emulation."

Was this a change of necessity? What gives?

Also, would you please Cc: me on your replies as I am not a member of 
the mailing list?


Best Regards,


-Cooper