linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/10] mm/ksm: reduce the flush action for ksm merging page

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Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 10:07:33 +0200
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: alexs@...nel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
 linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 izik.eidus@...ellosystems.com, willy@...radead.org, aarcange@...hat.com,
 chrisw@...s-sol.org, hughd@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] mm/ksm: reduce the flush action for ksm merging
 page

On 04.06.24 06:24, alexs@...nel.org wrote:
> From: "Alex Shi (tencent)" <alexs@...nel.org>
> 
> We can put off the flush action util a merging is realy coming. That
> could reduce some unmerge page flushing.
> BTW, flushing only do at arm, mips and few other archs.
> 

I'm no expert on that flushing, but I thought we would have to do the 
flushing before accessing page content -- before calculating the 
checksum etc.

Now you would only do it before the pages_identical() check, but not 
when calculating the checksum.

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb