From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, mel@csn.ul.ie, apw@shadowen.org,
nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com, agl@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] hugetlb: Decrease hugetlb_lock cycling in gather_surplus_huge_pages
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:31:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1203978660.11846.11.camel@nimitz.home.sr71.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080225220152.23627.25591.stgit@kernel>
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 14:01 -0800, Adam Litke wrote:
> + /* Free unnecessary surplus pages to the buddy allocator */
> + if (!list_empty(&surplus_list)) {
> + spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
> + list_for_each_entry_safe(page, tmp, &surplus_list, lru) {
> + list_del(&page->lru);
What is the surplus_list protected by?
-- Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-25 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-25 22:01 [PATCH 0/3] hugetlb: Dynamic pool resize improvements Adam Litke
2008-02-25 22:01 ` [PATCH 1/3] hugetlb: Correct page count for surplus huge pages Adam Litke
2008-02-25 22:26 ` Dave Hansen
2008-02-25 23:03 ` Adam Litke
2008-02-25 23:11 ` Dave Hansen
2008-02-26 16:53 ` Adam Litke
2008-02-26 16:48 ` Dave Hansen
2008-02-25 22:01 ` [PATCH 2/3] hugetlb: Close a difficult to trigger reservation race Adam Litke
2008-02-25 22:01 ` [PATCH 3/3] hugetlb: Decrease hugetlb_lock cycling in gather_surplus_huge_pages Adam Litke
2008-02-25 22:31 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2008-02-25 22:51 ` Adam Litke
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2008-03-03 18:06 [PATCH 0/3] hugetlb: Dynamic pool resize improvements Adam Litke
2008-03-03 18:06 ` [PATCH 3/3] hugetlb: Decrease hugetlb_lock cycling in gather_surplus_huge_pages Adam Litke
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