From 13224794cb0832caa403ad583d8605202cabc6bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Piggin Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:35:19 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/mmu_gather.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/mmu_gather.c') diff --git a/mm/mmu_gather.c b/mm/mmu_gather.c index 8c943a6e1696..7d70e5c78f97 100644 --- a/mm/mmu_gather.c +++ b/mm/mmu_gather.c @@ -271,8 +271,6 @@ void tlb_finish_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, tlb_flush_mmu(tlb); - /* keep the page table cache within bounds */ - check_pgt_cache(); #ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER tlb_batch_list_free(tlb); #endif -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151