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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: pipe/page fault oddness.
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 08:45:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFyt8euKZv8O-DMY7LE+467a_RQ38YOgF0Xh73+TseM=kQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d2a5f1m4.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Aneesh Kumar K.V
<aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Are we still looking at these options ? I could look at implementing the
> first option which will also enable us to free up one pte bit.

We definitely are. If you can test my patch (with the small follow-up
fix), and do the necessary changes for ppc64, that would be good.

I looked quickly at the ppc64 side, and it didn't look too painful.
Using pte_protnone() instead of pte_numa() should remove move lines
than it adds there too..

            Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-07 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-30  3:33 pipe/page fault oddness Dave Jones
2014-09-30  4:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-09-30  4:33   ` Dave Jones
     [not found]     ` <CA+55aFwxdOBKHwwp7Zq1k19mHCyHYmYqigCVt59AtB-P7Zva1w@mail.gmail.com>
2014-09-30 15:52       ` Linus Torvalds
2014-09-30 16:03         ` Rik van Riel
2014-09-30 16:07           ` Dave Jones
2014-09-30 16:26           ` Linus Torvalds
2014-09-30 16:05         ` Dave Jones
2014-09-30 16:10           ` Linus Torvalds
2014-09-30 16:22             ` Dave Jones
2014-09-30 16:40               ` Dave Jones
2014-09-30 16:46                 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-09-30 18:20                   ` Dave Jones
2014-09-30 18:58                     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-01  8:19                       ` Hugh Dickins
2014-10-01 16:01                         ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-01 16:18                           ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-01 17:29                             ` Rik van Riel
2014-10-02  8:28                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-01 20:20                             ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-01 21:09                               ` Rik van Riel
2014-10-01 22:08                               ` Sasha Levin
2014-10-01 22:28                                 ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-10-02  3:32                                   ` Sasha Levin
2014-10-02  8:03                                     ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-10-02 14:49                                       ` Sasha Levin
2014-10-01 22:42                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-02 14:25                                   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-10-02 16:01                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-02 16:35                                       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-10-02 15:04                                   ` Sasha Levin
2014-10-02 16:10                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-03  5:00                                       ` Sasha Levin
2014-10-03 15:43                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-03 15:58                                           ` Dave Jones
2014-10-03 16:02                                             ` Sasha Levin
2014-10-02 12:45                             ` Mel Gorman
2014-10-06 19:18                               ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-10-07 12:45                                 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2014-10-08 10:37                                   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-10-02  8:47                           ` Hugh Dickins
2014-10-02 15:57                             ` Linus Torvalds
2014-09-30  4:35   ` Al Viro

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