linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] mm: per-thread vma caching

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Date:	Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:39:47 -0800
From:	Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@...com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>, aswin@...com,
	scott.norton@...com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] mm: per-thread vma caching

On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 13:48 -0800, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> From: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@...com>
> diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
> index 8740213..95c2bd9 100644
> --- a/mm/nommu.c
> +++ b/mm/nommu.c
> @@ -768,16 +768,23 @@ static void add_vma_to_mm(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>   */
>  static void delete_vma_from_mm(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>  {
> +	int i;
>  	struct address_space *mapping;
>  	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
> +	struct task_struct *curr = current;
>  
>  	kenter("%p", vma);
>  
>  	protect_vma(vma, 0);
>  
>  	mm->map_count--;
> -	if (mm->mmap_cache == vma)
> -		mm->mmap_cache = NULL;
> +	for (i = 0; i < VMACACHE_SIZE; i++) {
> +		/* if the vma is cached, invalidate the entire cache */
> +		if (curr->vmacache[i] == vma) {
> +			vmacache_invalidate(mm);

*sigh* this should be curr->mm. 

Andrew, if there is no more feedback, do you want me to send another
patch for this or prefer fixing yourself for -mm? Assuming you'll take
it, of course.

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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