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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/4] mm: use the cached page for filemap_fault
On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 14:58:12 -0500 Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> wrote:

> If we drop the mmap_sem we have to redo the vma lookup which requires
> redoing the fault handler. Chances are we will just come back to the
> same page, so save this page in our vmf->cached_page and reuse it in the
> next loop through the fault handler.
>

Is this really worthwhile? Rerunning the fault handler is rare (we
hope) and a single pagecache lookup is fast.

Some performance testing results would be helpful here. It's
practically obligatory when claiming a performance improvement.


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