On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 04:05:46PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

Can you try Mel's change to make it use

        if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE))

instead of the pte details? Again, on otherwise plain 3.19, just so
that we have a baseline. I'd be *so* much happer with checking the vma
details over per-pte details, especially ones that change over the
lifetime of the pte entry, and the NUMA code explicitly mucks with.

$ sudo perf_3.18 stat -a -r 6 -e migrate:mm_migrate_pages sleep 10

 Performance counter stats for 'system wide' (6 runs):

    266,750      migrate:mm_migrate_pages ( +-  7.43% )

	  10.002032292 seconds time elapsed ( +-  0.00% )

Bit more variance there than the pte checking, but runtime
difference is in the noise - 5m4s vs 4m54s - and profiles are
identical to the pte checking version.

Cheers,

Dave.

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Dave Chinner
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