On 05/13/2014 03:32 AM, Armin Rigo wrote: > Hi Sasha, > > On 12 May 2014 17:11, Sasha Levin <sasha.le...@oracle.com> wrote: >> Since we can't find any actual users, > > The PyPy project doesn't count as an "actual user"? It's not just an > idea in the air. It's beta code that is already released (and open > source): > > http://morepypy.blogspot.ch/2014/04/stm-results-and-second-call-for.html > > The core library is available from there (see the test suite in c7/test/): > > https://bitbucket.org/pypy/stmgc > > I already reacted to the discussion here by making remap_file_pages() > optional (#undef USE_REMAP_FILE_PAGES) but didn't measure the > performance impact of this, if any (I expect it to be reasonable). > Still, if you're looking for a real piece of code using > remap_file_pages(), it's one.
Oh, I don't have anything against PyPy, I just wasn't aware it used remap_file_pages() (I think I've missed the discussion in the parallel thread). Indeed it is a user, have you tried it with a kernel that is running Kirill's patch set to replace remap_file_pages()? Thanks, Sasha -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
