Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 19 Nov 2003 02:50:49 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.0-test9-mm4 |
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 02:34:19AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > The following, incremental atop the smp_local_irq_*() removal, turns > shrink_pagetable_cache() into a set_shrinker()-registered shrinker_t. > I'm not entirely sure how good an idea this is given my prior remarks > about the vmscan.c code skipping shrink_slab() under highmem pressure. > Maybe the proper solution is teaching true slab shrinkers to honor > the gfp_mask argument? > This is also untested (apart from compiletesting).
If any of this goes anywhere, I probably deserve a wee bit of credit for getting it done (well, I did put some time into it). Here's me patting myself on the back, incremental atop the previous two.
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diff -prauN mm4-2.6.0-test9-4/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c mm4-2.6.0-test9-5/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c --- mm4-2.6.0-test9-4/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c 2003-11-19 02:26:04.000000000 -0800 +++ mm4-2.6.0-test9-5/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c 2003-11-19 02:46:50.000000000 -0800 @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ /* * linux/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c + * highpte-compatible pte cacheing, William Irwin, IBM, June 2003 */ #include <linux/config.h> - 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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