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[S390] Optimize storage key operations for anon pages
authorMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Fri, 1 Aug 2008 14:39:12 +0000 (16:39 +0200)
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Fri, 1 Aug 2008 14:39:30 +0000 (16:39 +0200)
commita4b526b3ba6353cd89a38e41da48ed83b0ead16f
tree362842354bdcde59feede51cbeefc9b8833aacf7
parent934b2857cc576ae53c92a66e63fce7ddcfa74691
[S390] Optimize storage key operations for anon pages

For anonymous pages without a swap cache backing the check in
page_remove_rmap for the physical dirty bit in page_remove_rmap is
unnecessary. The instructions that are used to check and reset the dirty
bit are expensive. Removing the check noticably speeds up process exit.
In addition the clearing of the dirty bit in __SetPageUptodate is
pointless as well. With these two changes there is no storage key
operation for an anonymous page anymore if it does not hit the swap
space.

The micro benchmark which repeatedly executes an empty shell script
gets about 5% faster.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
include/linux/page-flags.h
mm/rmap.c