Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:42:06 -0500 | From | Dimitri Sivanich <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Move cache_reap out of timer context |
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On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 08:52:56PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * 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? > If others could test this patch on whatever platforms they have available, I would very much appreciate it. - 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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