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Revision e8a03feb54ca7f1768bbdc2b491f9ef654e6d01d authored by Rik van Riel on 14 April 2010, 21:59:28 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 19 April 2010, 23:28:20 UTC
The recent anon_vma fixes cause many anonymous pages to end up
in the parent process anon_vma, even when the page is exclusively
owned by the current process.

Adding exclusively owned anonymous pages to the top anon_vma
reduces rmap scanning overhead, especially in workloads with
forking servers.

This patch adds a parameter to __page_set_anon_rmap that can
be used to indicate whether or not the added page is exclusively
owned by the current process.

Pages added through page_add_new_anon_rmap are exclusively
owned by the current process, and can be added to the top
anon_vma.

Pages added through page_add_anon_rmap can be either shared
or exclusively owned, so we do the conservative thing and
add it to the oldest anon_vma.

A next step would be to add the exclusive parameter to
page_add_anon_rmap, to be used from functions where we do
know for sure whether a page is exclusively owned.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Lightly-tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
[ Edited to look nicer  - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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History
Tip revision: e8a03feb54ca7f1768bbdc2b491f9ef654e6d01d authored by Rik van Riel on 14 April 2010, 21:59:28 UTC
rmap: add exclusively owned pages to the newest anon_vma
Tip revision: e8a03fe
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Kconfig -rw-r--r-- 541 bytes
Makefile -rw-r--r-- 248 bytes
balloc.c -rw-r--r-- 22.5 KB
dir.c -rw-r--r-- 5.4 KB
directory.c -rw-r--r-- 5.8 KB
ecma_167.h -rw-r--r-- 22.0 KB
file.c -rw-r--r-- 6.2 KB
ialloc.c -rw-r--r-- 4.2 KB
inode.c -rw-r--r-- 58.5 KB
lowlevel.c -rw-r--r-- 1.5 KB
misc.c -rw-r--r-- 7.7 KB
namei.c -rw-r--r-- 35.4 KB
osta_udf.h -rw-r--r-- 8.2 KB
partition.c -rw-r--r-- 8.3 KB
super.c -rw-r--r-- 60.8 KB
symlink.c -rw-r--r-- 2.4 KB
truncate.c -rw-r--r-- 8.8 KB
udf_i.h -rw-r--r-- 742 bytes
udf_sb.h -rw-r--r-- 4.0 KB
udfdecl.h -rw-r--r-- 8.0 KB
udfend.h -rw-r--r-- 1.6 KB
udftime.c -rw-r--r-- 5.8 KB
unicode.c -rw-r--r-- 11.1 KB

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