From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@intel.linux.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [Patch 3/3] prepopulate/cache cleared pages
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:33:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602241333.16190.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43FEAF52.80705@yahoo.com.au>
On Friday 24 February 2006 08:01, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> Yeah, as I said above, the newly allocated page is fine, it is the
> page table pages I'm worried about.
page tables are easy because we zero them on free (as a side effect
of all the pte_clears)
I did a experimental hack some time ago to set a new struct page
flag when a page is known to be zeroed on freeing and use that for
a GFP_ZERO allocation (basically skip the clear_page when that
flag was set)
The idea was to generalize the old page table reuse caches which
Ingo removed at some point.
It only works of course if the allocations and freeing
of page tables roughly matches up. In theory on could have
split the lists of the buddy allocator too into zero/non
zero pages to increase the hit rate, but I didn't attempt this.
I unfortunately don't remember the outcome, dropped it for some reason.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-24 12:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-23 9:17 [Patch 0/3] threaded mmap tweaks Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-23 9:29 ` [Patch 3/3] prepopulate/cache cleared pages Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-23 9:41 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-23 12:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-23 13:06 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-23 13:15 ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-23 13:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-24 6:36 ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-24 6:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-24 7:01 ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-24 12:33 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-02-24 12:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-24 9:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-24 9:26 ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-24 12:27 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-24 15:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2006-02-25 16:48 ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-25 17:22 ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-28 22:30 ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-23 18:25 ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-23 9:30 ` [Patch 2/3] fast VMA recycling Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-23 9:42 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-23 9:48 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-23 10:05 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-23 10:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-23 11:00 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-23 11:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-23 11:57 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-24 18:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-24 19:05 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-24 19:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-23 16:37 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-02-23 20:02 [Patch 3/3] prepopulate/cache cleared pages Chuck Ebbert
2006-02-23 21:10 Chuck Ebbert
2006-02-23 21:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
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