linux-kernel - Re: Populating multiple ptes at fault time

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Date:	Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:23:03 -0400
From:	Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Martin Bligh <mbligh@...gle.com>,
	MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Hugh Dickens <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Populating multiple ptes at fault time

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Martin Bligh wrote:
>>> My patches were only for anonymous pages not for file backed because readahead
>>> is available for file backed mappings.
>> Do we populate the PTEs though? I didn't think that was batched, but I
>> might well be wrong.
> 
> We do not populate the PTEs and AFAICT PTE population was assumed not to be
> performance critical since the backing media is comparatively slow.
> 

Perhaps we should.  In a virtual guest, the backing media is often an emulated 
IDE device, or something similarly inefficient, such that the bottleneck is the CPU.

-- Chris
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