From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>
Cc: davej@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SMP support for drain local pages v2.
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 16:56:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040526165657.36d84bf0.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40B52A7D.6090102@linuxmail.org>
Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > I think we only need a single entry point. Make it a new "drain_percpu_pages()"
> > or such to break unconverted callers, switch callers of drain_local_pages()
> > over to the new function. It needs no SMP ifdefs in it - on_each_cpu() will
> > do the right thing on UP.
> >
> > But until something which needs this change is merged into the tree I'd say
> > that this patch should live with the patch which requires it.
>
> CPU hotplugging uses drain_local_pages,
Early versions did, but not now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-26 23:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-26 10:39 [PATCH] SMP support for drain local pages Nigel Cunningham
2004-05-26 22:32 ` Dave Jones
2004-05-26 22:56 ` [PATCH] SMP support for drain local pages v2 Nigel Cunningham
2004-05-26 23:26 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-26 23:38 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-05-26 23:56 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-05-26 23:56 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-05-27 19:29 ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-27 21:22 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-05-27 19:25 ` [PATCH] SMP support for drain local pages Pavel Machek
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