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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: [patch 0/4] mm: de-skew page_count
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 00:23:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060108052307.2996.39444.sendpatchset@didi.local0.net> (raw)

The following patchset (against 2.6.15-rc5ish) uses the new atomic ops to
do away with the offset page refcounting, and simplify the race that it
was designed to cover.

This allows some nice optimisations, and we end up saving 2 atomic ops
including a spin_lock_irqsave in the !PageLRU case, and 1 or 2 atomic ops
in the PageLRU case in the page-release path.

It also happens to be a requirement for my lockless pagecache work, but
stands on its own as good patches.

Nick

-- 
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.


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             reply	other threads:[~2006-01-08  5:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-08  5:23 Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-01-08  5:23 ` [patch 1/4] mm: page refcount use atomic primitives Nick Piggin
2006-01-08  5:54   ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-08 20:40     ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-08 21:43       ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-08  5:24 ` [patch 2/4] mm: PageLRU no testset Nick Piggin
2006-01-08  5:24 ` [patch 3/4] mm: PageActive " Nick Piggin
2006-01-08  5:25 ` [patch 4/4] mm: less atomic ops Nick Piggin
2006-01-08  5:42 ` [patch 0/4] mm: de-skew page_count Nick Piggin

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