Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Jul 2004 20:52:56 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Move cache_reap out of timer context |
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* Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> wrote:
> I'm submitting two patches associated with moving cache_reap > functionality out of timer context. Note that these patches do not > make any further optimizations to cache_reap at this time. > > The first patch adds a function similiar to schedule_delayed_work to > allow work to be scheduled on another cpu. > > The second patch makes use of schedule_delayed_work_on to schedule > cache_reap to run from keventd. > > These patches apply to 2.6.8-rc1. > > Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
looks good to me and i agree with moving this unbound execution-time function out of irq context. I suspect this should see some -mm testing first/too?
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