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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: [patch 0/4] mm: de-skew page refcount
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:40:25 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060118024106.10241.69438.sendpatchset@linux.site> (raw)

The following patchset (against 2.6.16-rc1 + migrate race fixes) 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 in the page freeing path 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.

Andrew's previous feedback has been incorporated (less BUG_ONs in fastpaths
and more detail in changelogs).

Anyone spot any holes or races?

Thanks,
Nick

             reply	other threads:[~2006-01-18 10:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-18 10:40 Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-01-18 10:40 ` [patch 1/4] mm: page refcount use atomic primitives Nick Piggin
2006-01-18 10:40 ` [patch 2/4] mm: PageLRU no testset Nick Piggin
2006-01-19 17:48   ` Nikita Danilov
2006-01-19 18:10     ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-18 10:40 ` [patch 3/3] mm: PageActive " Nick Piggin
2006-01-18 14:13   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2006-01-19 14:50     ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-19 16:52       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2006-01-19 20:02         ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-19 21:41           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2006-01-18 10:41 ` [patch 4/4] mm: less atomic ops Nick Piggin
2006-01-18 16:38 ` [patch 0/4] mm: de-skew page refcount Linus Torvalds
2006-01-18 17:05   ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-18 19:27     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-19 14:00       ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-19 16:36         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-19 17:06           ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-19 17:27             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-19 17:38               ` Nick Piggin

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