[PATCH 0/1] mm, shmem: map few pages around fault address if they are in page cache

From: Ning Qu
Date: Fri Feb 28 2014 - 17:19:29 EST


This is a follow-up patch for "mm: map few pages around fault address if they are in page cache"

We use the generic filemap_map_pages as ->map_pages in shmem/tmpfs.

Please consider applying.

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Below is just some simple experiment numbers from this patch, let me know if
you would like more:

Tested on Xeon machine with 64GiB of RAM, using the current default fault
order 4.

Sequential access 8GiB file
Baseline with-patch
1 thread
minor fault 205 101
time, seconds 7.94 7.82

Random access 8GiB file
Baseline with-patch
1 thread
minor fault 724 623
time, seconds 9.75 9.84


Ning Qu (1):
mm: implement ->map_pages for shmem/tmpfs

mm/shmem.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

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1.9.0.279.gdc9e3eb

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