Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:34:56 -0500 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [patch 8/8] mm: reduce rmap overhead for ex-KSM page copies created on swap faults |
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On 12/12/2012 04:43 PM, Johannes Weiner wrote: > When ex-KSM pages are faulted from swap cache, the fault handler is > not capable of re-establishing anon_vma-spanning KSM pages. In this > case, a copy of the page is created instead, just like during a COW > break. > > These freshly made copies are known to be exclusive to the faulting > VMA and there is no reason to go look for this page in parent and > sibling processes during rmap operations. > > Use page_add_new_anon_rmap() for these copies. This also puts them on > the proper LRU lists and marks them SwapBacked, so we can get rid of > doing this ad-hoc in the KSM copy code. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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