Subject: Re: direct I/O
To: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
From: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/04/2005 02:17:11
On Friday 04 March 2005 01:28, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> 34.52 370.95 370.95 709745 0.52 0.52 genfs_putpages
> 5.51 695.74 59.24 529689671 0.00 0.00 pmap_clear_attrs
> 2.17 805.80 23.33 532201987 0.00 0.00 pmap_tlb_shootnow
I think it's pretty obvious here that genfs_putpages() is doing more work than
necessary. In particular, I have trouble imagining why it needs to call
pmap_clear_{modify,referenced}() that many times.