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Commit e920e14c authored by Mel Gorman's avatar Mel Gorman Committed by Ingo Molnar
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mm: Do not flush TLB during protection change if !pte_present && !migration_entry



NUMA PTE scanning is expensive both in terms of the scanning itself and
the TLB flush if there are any updates. Currently non-present PTEs are
accounted for as an update and incurring a TLB flush where it is only
necessary for anonymous migration entries. This patch addresses the
problem and should reduce TLB flushes.

Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-11-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent afcae265
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