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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] lru_add_drain_all() don't use schedule_on_each_cpu()
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> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 16:20 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > > I guess we should document our newly discovered schedule_on_each_cpu()
> > > problems before we forget about it and later rediscover it.
> >
> > Now, schedule_on_each_cpu() is only used by lru_add_drain_all().
> > and smp_call_function() is better way for cross call.
> >
> > So I propose
> > 1. lru_add_drain_all() use smp_call_function()
> > 2. remove schedule_on_each_cpu()
> >
> >
> > Thought?
>
> At the very least that will not solve the problem on -rt where a lot of
> the smp_call_function() users are converted to schedule_on_each_cpu().

yup.
Now, I testing "simple dropping lru_add_drain_all() in mlock path" patch.

Thanks.




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