Re: 2.6.0-test9-mm4

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

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.


-- wli



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>