Re: [PATCH 0/3] make mapped executable pages the first classcitizen

From: Jesse Barnes
Date: Wed Jun 17 2009 - 17:11:51 EST


On Sat, 16 May 2009 16:56:16 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 17:00 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > Andrew,
> >
> > This patchset makes mapped executable pages the first class citizen.
> > This version has incorparated many valuable comments from people in
> > the CC list, and runs OK on my desktop. Let's test it in your -mm?
>
> Seems like a good set to me. Thanks for following this through Wu!

Now that this set has hit the mainline I just wanted to chime in and
say this makes a big difference. Under my current load (a parallel
kernel build and virtualbox session the old kernel would have been
totally unusable. With Linus's current bits, things are much better
(still a little sluggish with a big dd going on in the virtualbox, but
actually usable).

Thanks!

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Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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