Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: tracking shared dirty pages

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu May 25 2006 - 13:02:52 EST


On Thu, 25 May 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 09:21 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 May 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >
> > > @@ -1446,12 +1447,13 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *
> > >
> > > - if (unlikely(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) {
> > > + if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) {
> >
> > You add this unlikely later again it seems. Why remove in the first place?
>
> I'm not sure I follow you, are you suggesting that we'll find the
> condition to be unlikely still, even with most of the shared mappings
> trapping this branch?

No, I just saw the opposite in a later patch. It was the -1 patch that
does

+ if (unlikely(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) {

but thats a different context?
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