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| author | Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> | 2008-08-01 16:39:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> | 2008-08-01 16:39:30 +0200 |
| commit | a4b526b3ba6353cd89a38e41da48ed83b0ead16f (patch) | |
| tree | 362842354bdcde59feede51cbeefc9b8833aacf7 /mm | |
| parent | [S390] nohz/sclp: disable timer on synchronous waits. (diff) | |
| download | linux-a4b526b3ba6353cd89a38e41da48ed83b0ead16f.tar.xz linux-a4b526b3ba6353cd89a38e41da48ed83b0ead16f.zip | |
[S390] Optimize storage key operations for anon pages
For anonymous pages without a swap cache backing the check in
page_remove_rmap for the physical dirty bit in page_remove_rmap is
unnecessary. The instructions that are used to check and reset the dirty
bit are expensive. Removing the check noticably speeds up process exit.
In addition the clearing of the dirty bit in __SetPageUptodate is
pointless as well. With these two changes there is no storage key
operation for an anonymous page anymore if it does not hit the swap
space.
The micro benchmark which repeatedly executes an empty shell script
gets about 5% faster.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/rmap.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c index 99bc3f9cd796..94a5246a3f98 100644 --- a/mm/rmap.c +++ b/mm/rmap.c @@ -667,7 +667,8 @@ void page_remove_rmap(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma) * Leaving it set also helps swapoff to reinstate ptes * faster for those pages still in swapcache. */ - if (page_test_dirty(page)) { + if ((!PageAnon(page) || PageSwapCache(page)) && + page_test_dirty(page)) { page_clear_dirty(page); set_page_dirty(page); } |