On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Have you looked at "free_pte()"? I don't like that function, and it might
> make a difference. There are several small nits with it:
snip
> I _think_ the logic should be something along the lines of: "freeing the
> page amounts to a implied down-aging of the page, but the 'accessed' bit
> would have aged it up, so the two take each other out". But if so, the
> free_pte() logic should have something like
>
> if (page->mapping) {
> if (!pte_young(pte) || PageSwapCache(page))
> age_page_down_ageonly(page);
> if (!page->age)
> deactivate_page(page);
> }
Hi,
I tried this out today after some more reading.
virgin pre7 +Rik
real 11m44.088s
user 7m57.720s
sys 0m36.420s
+Rik +Linus
real 11m48.597s
user 7m55.620s
sys 0m37.860s
+Rik +Linus +HarshAging
real 11m17.758s
user 7m57.650s
sys 0m36.350s
None of them make much difference.
-Mike
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