Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Jan 1999 09:54:50 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...] |
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On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > On 11 Jan 1999 00:04:11 -0600, ebiederm+eric@ccr.net (Eric W. Biederman) > said: > > > Oh, and just as a side note we are currently unfairly penalizing > > threaded programs by doing for_each_task instead of for_each_mm in the > > swapout code... > > I know, on my TODO list...
Actually, this one is _really_ easy to fix.
The truly trivial fix is to just move "swap_cnt" into the mm structure, and you're all done. You'd still walk the list with for_each_task(), but it no longer matters.
Linus
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