svn commit: r233011 - head/sys/powerpc/aim

Alan Cox alc at rice.edu
Thu Mar 15 22:18:47 UTC 2012


On 3/15/2012 2:36 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> Author: nwhitehorn
> Date: Thu Mar 15 19:36:52 2012
> New Revision: 233011
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/233011
>
> Log:
>    Improve algorithm for deciding whether to loop through all process pages
>    or look them up individually in pmap_remove() and apply the same logic
>    in the other ranged operation (pmap_protect). This speeds up make
>    installworld by a factor of 2 on powerpc64.
>
>    MFC after:	1 week
>
> Modified:
>    head/sys/powerpc/aim/mmu_oea64.c
>

As an additional, related optimization, you should look into 
implementing pmap_remove_pages().

Alan



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