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From: Jason Uhlenkott <jasonuhl@sgi.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 02:06:45 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prezeroing V8 + free_hot_zeroed_page + free_cold_zeroed page
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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

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.