[PATCH] remove page->virtual
The patch removes page->virtual for all architectures which do not define WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL. Hash for it instead. Possibly we could define WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL for CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G, but it seems unlikely. A lot of the pressure went off kmap() and page_address() as a result of the move to kmap_atomic(). That should be the preferred way to address CPU load in the set_page_address() and page_address() hashing and locking. If kmap_atomic is not usable then the next best approach is for users to cache the result of kmap() in a local rather than calling page_address() repeatedly. One heavy user of kmap() and page_address() is the ext2 directory code. On a 7G Quad PIII, running four concurrent instances of while true do find /usr/src/linux > /dev/null done on ext2 with everything cached, profiling shows that the new hashed set_page_address() and page_address() implementations consume 0.4% and 1.3% of CPU time respectively. I think that's OK.
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