Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 May 2007 00:42:00 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: slub-i386-support.patch |
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On Fri, 11 May 2007 10:29:30 +0200 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> > I'm guessing (haven't rechecked source) that the cpu_idle() call comes > > about because the top level pgd of a process gets freed very late in > > its exit, and after a great flurry of processes have just exited, > > perhaps there was nothing to free up the accumulation. Though > > it still strikes me as an odd place to do it. > > I always found it odd and probably the wrong place too.
so... what's the bottom line here, guys? Should we change that patch? - 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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