Re: page fault scalability patch V16 [3/4]: Drop page_table_lock in

Christoph Lameter
2005-02-01T18:47:30Z

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Nick Piggin wrote:

> Slightly OT: are you still planning to move the update_mem_hiwater and
> friends crud out of these fastpaths? It looks like at least that function
> is unsafe to be lockless.

Yes. I have a patch pending and the author of the CSA patches is a
cowoerker of mine. The patch will be resubmitted once certain aspects
of the timer subsystem are stabilized and/or when he gets back from his
vacation. The statistics are not critical to system operation.