From: Liu ping fan <kernelfans@gmail.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] powerpc: mm: make _PAGE_NUMA take effect
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 14:17:45 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFgQCTtJh1-2wuLueREbA6ru5cje4EcxN5yT+cU-YNSrZi9O=Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1386549112.5159.4.camel@pasglop>
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 16:23 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> Liu Ping Fan <kernelfans@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > To enable the do_numa_page(), we should not fix _PAGE_NUMA in
>> > hash_page(), so bail out for the case of pte_numa().
>
> For some reason I don't have 2/3 and 3/3 in my mbox (though I do have
> them on patchwork) so I'll reply to this one.
>
> Overall, your statement that this is a faster path needs to be backed up
> with numbers.
>
> The code is complicated enough as it-is, such additional mess in the low
> level hashing code requires a good justification, and also a
> demonstration that it doesn't add overhead to the normal hash path.
>
For the test, is it ok to have an user application to copy page where
all page are PG_mlocked?
Thanks and regards,
Pingfan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-09 6:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-04 6:59 [PATCH 0/3] optimize for powerpc _PAGE_NUMA Liu Ping Fan
2013-12-04 6:59 ` [PATCH 1/3] powerpc: mm: make _PAGE_NUMA take effect Liu Ping Fan
2013-12-05 10:53 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-12-09 0:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-12-09 6:17 ` Liu ping fan [this message]
2013-12-09 6:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-12-11 8:50 ` Liu ping fan
2013-12-11 9:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-12-12 2:19 ` Liu ping fan
2013-12-04 6:59 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm: export numa_migrate_prep() Liu Ping Fan
2013-12-04 6:59 ` [PATCH 3/3] powerpc: mm: optimize for the correctly placed page Liu Ping Fan
2013-12-05 10:58 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-12-05 13:27 ` Liu ping fan
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