Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:47:30 -0800 (PST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: page fault scalability patch V16 [3/4]: Drop page_table_lock in handle_mm_fault |
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On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Slightly OT: are you still planning to move the update_mem_hiwater and > friends crud out of these fastpaths? It looks like at least that function > is unsafe to be lockless.
Yes. I have a patch pending and the author of the CSA patches is a cowoerker of mine. The patch will be resubmitted once certain aspects of the timer subsystem are stabilized and/or when he gets back from his vacation. The statistics are not critical to system operation. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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