Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 May 2001 07:04:31 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10 |
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On Sun, 20 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> but ;-) > > Looking at the locking and trying to think SMP (grunt) though, I > don't like the thought of taking two locks for each page until
> 100%. The data in that block is toast anyway. A big hairy SMP > box has to feel reclaim_page(). (they probably feel the zone lock > too.. probably would like to allocate blocks)
Indeed, but this is a separate problem. Doing per-CPU private (small, 8-32 page?) free lists is probably a good idea, but I don't really think it's related to kreclaimd ;)
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