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Message-ID: <20090618012532.GB19732@localhost>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:25:32 +0800
From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] make mapped executable pages the first class
citizen
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@...radead.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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