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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:49:14 -0800
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org> wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:31:20 -0800
> > "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 14:29 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> As Christoph says, it's very much preferred that code be migrated over to
> >>>> kmap_atomic(). Partly because kmap() is deadlockable in situations where a
> >>>> large number of threads are trying to take two kmaps at the same time and
> >>>> we run out. This happened in the past, but incidences have gone away,
> >>>> probably because of kmap->kmap_atomic conversions.
> >>>> From which callsite have you measured problems?
> >>> CONFIG_HIGHPTE code in -rt was horrid. I'll do some measurements on
> >>> mainline.
> >>>
> >> CONFIG_HIGHPTE is always horrid -we've known that for years.
> >
> > We have? What's wrong with it? <looks around for bug reports>
>
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0307.0/0463.html

2% overhead for a pte-intensive workload for unknown reasons four years
ago. Sort of a mini-horrid, no?

We still don't know what is the source of kmap() activity which
necessitated this patch btw. AFAIK the busiest source is ext2 directories,
but perhaps NFS under certain conditions?

<looks at xfs_iozero>

->prepare_write no longer requires that the caller kmap the page.
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