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From: Jason Uhlenkott <jasonuhl@sgi.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	holt@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prezeroing V8 + free_hot_zeroed_page + free_cold_zeroed page
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 02:06:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050318020645.GC156968@dragonfly.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0503171459310.10205@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 05:36:50PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> +        while (avenrun[0] >= ((unsigned long)sysctl_scrub_load << FSHIFT)) {
> +		set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> +		schedule_timeout(30*HZ);
> +	}

This should probably be TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE.  It'll never actually get
interrupted either way since kernel threads block all signals, but
sleeping uninterruptibly contributes to the load average.  

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-18  2:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.58.0503171340480.9678@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
     [not found] ` <20050317140831.414b73bb.akpm@osdl.org>
2005-03-18  1:36   ` [PATCH] Prezeroing V8 + free_hot_zeroed_page + free_cold_zeroed Christoph Lameter
2005-03-18  2:06     ` Jason Uhlenkott [this message]
2005-03-18  2:09       ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-18  5:43         ` [PATCH] Prezeroing V8 + free_hot_zeroed_page + free_cold_zeroed page Nish Aravamudan

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