Re: [PATCH 2/3] Retry page fault when blocking on disk transfer.

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On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Replacement patches are a bit cruel to people who've already reviewed
> the previous version.  I always turn them into deltas so I can see what
> was changed.  It is below.

Thanks Andrew. Sorry for the trouble, I'll know to avoid this next time.

> How well was the new swapin path tested?

Not as well as the file backed path - it's not gotten real production
use yet. However the plan is that this change will be in google's next
kernel update, so it will get a lot more more testing soon (starting
in ~1 week).

I did basic testing by dirtying an anon VMA larger that memory, then
accessing it in random order while another thread runs a mmap/munmap
loop, and checking that things behave as expected there (i.e. the
patch allows the mmap/munmap thread to progress without waiting for
the other thread swap-ins).

-- 
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.

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