Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751865AbWEPQca (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 12:32:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751856AbWEPQca (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 12:32:30 -0400 Received: from fmr20.intel.com ([134.134.136.19]:61914 "EHLO orsfmr005.jf.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751865AbWEPQca (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 12:32:30 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 09:31:12 -0700 From: Valerie Henson To: Andreas Mohr Cc: Nick Piggin , Ulrich Drepper , Blaisorblade , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Memory Management , Val Henson Subject: Re: [patch 00/14] remap_file_pages protection support Message-ID: <20060516163111.GK9612@goober> References: <20060430172953.409399000@zion.home.lan> <4456D5ED.2040202@yahoo.com.au> <200605030225.54598.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> <445CC949.7050900@redhat.com> <445D75EB.5030909@yahoo.com.au> <4465E981.60302@yahoo.com.au> <20060513181945.GC9612@goober> <4469D3F8.8020305@yahoo.com.au> <20060516135135.GA28995@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060516135135.GA28995@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 986 Lines: 23 On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 03:51:35PM +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote: > > I cannot offer much other than some random confirmation that from my own > oprofiling, whatever I did (often running a load test script consisting of > launching 30 big apps at the same time), find_vma basically always showed up > very prominently in the list of vmlinux-based code (always ranking within the > top 4 or 5 kernel hotspots, such as timer interrupts, ACPI idle I/O etc.pp.). > call-tracing showed it originating from mmap syscalls etc., and AFAIR quite > some find_vma activity from oprofile itself. This is important: Which kernel? The cases I saw it in were in a (now old) SuSE kernel which as it turns out had old/different vma lookup code. Thanks, -VAL - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/