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authorAndi Kleen <[email protected]>2011-05-24 17:12:29 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2011-05-25 08:39:26 -0700
commit207d04baa3591a354711e863dd90087fc75873b3 (patch)
tree17498d55af5b2a588e7e7111e927a099236ca770 /tools/perf/scripts/python/sched-migration.py
parent275b12bf5486f6f531111fd3d7dbbf01df427cfe (diff)
readahead: reduce unnecessary mmap_miss increases
The original INT_MAX is too large, reduce it to - avoid unnecessarily dirtying/bouncing the cache line - restore mmap read-around faster on changed access pattern Background: in the mosbench exim benchmark which does multi-threaded page faults on shared struct file, the ra->mmap_miss updates are found to cause excessive cache line bouncing on tmpfs. The ra state updates are needless for tmpfs because it actually disabled readahead totally (shmem_backing_dev_info.ra_pages == 0). Tested-by: Tim Chen <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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