Re: Dirty/Access bits vs. page content

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On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Oh, absolutely. I wasn't arguing it didn't need it. I was merely
> pointing out that if one was to add to Linus' patch such that we'd only
> do the force_flush for mapping_cap_account_dirty() we wouldn't need
> extra things to deal with shmem.

I think we can certainly add that check if we find out that it is
indeed a performance problem. I *could* imagine loads where people
mmap/munmap shmem regions at a high rate, but don't actually know of
any (remember: for this to matter they also have to dirty the pages).

In the absence of such knowledge, I'd rather not make things more
complex than they already are.

              Linus
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