linux/arch/ia64
Nicholas Piggin 13224794cb mm: remove quicklist page table caches
Patch series "mm: remove quicklist page table caches".

A while ago Nicholas proposed to remove quicklist page table caches [1].

I've rebased his patch on the curren upstream and switched ia64 and sh to
use generic versions of PTE allocation.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190711030339.20892-1-npiggin@gmail.com

This patch (of 3):

Remove page table allocator "quicklists".  These have been around for a
long time, but have not got much traction in the last decade and are only
used on ia64 and sh architectures.

The numbers in the initial commit look interesting but probably don't
apply anymore.  If anybody wants to resurrect this it's in the git
history, but it's unhelpful to have this code and divergent allocator
behaviour for minor archs.

Also it might be better to instead make more general improvements to page
allocator if this is still so slow.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1565250728-21721-2-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-09-24 15:54:09 -07:00
..
configs ia64: remove support for machvecs 2019-08-16 14:32:26 -07:00
hp/common dma-mapping updates for 5.4: 2019-09-19 13:27:23 -07:00
include mm: remove quicklist page table caches 2019-09-24 15:54:09 -07:00
kernel dma-mapping updates for 5.4: 2019-09-19 13:27:23 -07:00
lib ia64: remove now unused machvec indirections 2019-08-16 11:33:57 -07:00
mm mm: introduce page_size() 2019-09-24 15:54:08 -07:00
oprofile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
pci ia64: remove support for machvecs 2019-08-16 14:32:26 -07:00
scripts ia64: convert unwcheck.py to python3 2018-03-05 14:35:01 -08:00
uv ia64: remove support for machvecs 2019-08-16 14:32:26 -07:00
install.sh
Kconfig mm: remove quicklist page table caches 2019-09-24 15:54:09 -07:00
Kconfig.debug ia64: remove support for machvecs 2019-08-16 14:32:26 -07:00
Makefile Kbuild updates for v5.4 2019-09-20 08:36:47 -07:00
module.lds License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00