Re: 2.6.38 page_test regression

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:16:48AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Theories better than slightly-different-register-use are welcome.

__pte_alloc_one is now skipped 511 times every 512 page faults, so we
call alloc_pages 512 times less and we take page_table_lock 512 times
less, that explains it I think. We need it...
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