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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: slub-i386-support.patch
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 10:29:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070511082930.GP2012@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705102349150.24200@blonde.wat.veritas.com>

> 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.
-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-11  7:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-10 20:03 slub-i386-support.patch Hugh Dickins
2007-05-10 20:17 ` slub-i386-support.patch Andrew Morton
2007-05-10 20:31   ` slub-i386-support.patch Christoph Lameter
2007-05-10 20:50     ` slub-i386-support.patch David Miller
2007-05-10 20:31 ` slub-i386-support.patch William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-10 20:35   ` slub-i386-support.patch Christoph Lameter
2007-05-10 21:09     ` slub-i386-support.patch William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-10 21:28       ` slub-i386-support.patch Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 23:35         ` slub-i386-support.patch William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-10 21:22     ` slub-i386-support.patch Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 23:14   ` slub-i386-support.patch Hugh Dickins
2007-05-11  0:07     ` slub-i386-support.patch William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-11  1:08       ` slub-i386-support.patch William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-11  5:09         ` slub-i386-support.patch Christoph Lameter
2007-05-11  7:43           ` slub-i386-support.patch William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-11  1:42       ` slub-i386-support.patch William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-11  8:29     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-05-11  7:42       ` slub-i386-support.patch Andrew Morton
2007-05-11  7:54         ` slub-i386-support.patch William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-11 16:15           ` slub-i386-support.patch Christoph Lameter
2007-05-11 20:47             ` slub-i386-support.patch William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-11  9:27         ` slub-i386-support.patch Hugh Dickins

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