On Fri, 5 Jan 2018, Michal Hocko wrote: > Yes. I am really wondering because there souldn't anything specific to > improve the situation with patch 2 and 3. Likewise the only overhead > from the patch 1 I can see is the reduced batching of the mmap_sem. But > then I am wondering what would compensate that later... Could you reduce the frequency of taking mmap_sem? Maybe take it when picking a new node and drop it when done with that node before migrating the list of pages? There is the potential of large amounts of pages being migrated and having to take a semaphore on every one of them would create a nice amount of overhead. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
