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SubjectRe: [PATCH]: 1/4 batch mark_page_accessed()
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 01:12:50PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com> wrote:
> >
> > Batch mark_page_accessed() (a la lru_cache_add() and lru_cache_add_active()):
> > page to be marked accessed is placed into per-cpu pagevec
> > (page_accessed_pvec). When pagevec is filled up, all pages are processed in a
> > batch.
> >
> > This is supposed to decrease contention on zone->lru_lock.
>
> Looks sane, althought it does add more atomic ops (the extra
> get_page/put_page). Some benchmarks would be nice to have.

I'll run STP benchmarks as soon as STP is working again.
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