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SubjectRe: Why active list and inactive list?
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Balbir Singh wrote:

> When you unmap or map, you need to touch the pte entries and know the
> pages involved, so shouldn't be equivalent to a list_del and list_add
> for each page impacted by the map/unmap operation?

When you unmap and map you must currently get exclusive access to the
cachelines of the pte and the cacheline of the page struct. If we use a
list_move on page->lru then we have would have to update pointers in up
to 4 other page structs. Thus we need exclusive access to 4 additional
cachelines. This triples the number of cachelines touched. Instead of 2
cachelines we need 6.


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