Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:25:32 +0800 | From | Wu Fengguang <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] make mapped executable pages the first class citizen |
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On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 05:11:35AM +0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Sat, 16 May 2009 16:56:16 +0200 > Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 17:00 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > > > Andrew, > > > > > > This patchset makes mapped executable pages the first class citizen. > > > This version has incorparated many valuable comments from people in > > > the CC list, and runs OK on my desktop. Let's test it in your -mm? > > > > Seems like a good set to me. Thanks for following this through Wu! > > Now that this set has hit the mainline I just wanted to chime in and > say this makes a big difference. Under my current load (a parallel > kernel build and virtualbox session the old kernel would have been > totally unusable. With Linus's current bits, things are much better > (still a little sluggish with a big dd going on in the virtualbox, but > actually usable). > > Thanks!
Jesse, thank you for the feedback :) And I'd like to credit Rik for his patch on protecting active file LRU pages from being flushed by streaming IO!
Thanks, Fengguang
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