Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:52:13 -0800 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.5.62-mm3] objrmap fix for X |
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>>> It occurred to me I'm already using (abusing?) the flag for nonlinear >>> pages, so I have to keep it. I'll chase solutions for X. >> >> Ok, the vm_ops->nopage function is set in drivers like drm and agp. I >> don't think it's reasonable to require all of them to set PageAnon. So >> here's a patch that tests the page on do_no_page and sets the flag >> appropriately. > > Well, it runs fine, but I get truly freaky performance results. My machine > might have gone wacko on me or something - the patch seems perfectly > simple to me. Kernbench is all over the map - user and elapsed way up, > system is down. Ummm .. probably all too strange to be true, and I've > made a mistake, but if some more sane person than I could run a quick > test, would help.
Pah. Debian stealth-upgraded me to gcc 3.2 ... no wonder it's slow as a dog. So your patch is stable, and works just fine. Sorry,
M.
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