From: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
To: konrad@darnok.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dan.magenheimer@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/11] mm: frontswap: split frontswap_shrink further to eliminate locking games
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:37:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1338982637.3292.63.camel@lappy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPbh3ruJVJkemK4WqjxQYbXYtD9zdDB3dqrRF916cpw3Ub66ug@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 07:30 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>
> On Jun 6, 2012 6:55 AM, "Sasha Levin" <levinsasha928@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Split frontswap_shrink to eliminate the locking issues in the
> original code.
>
> Can you describe the locking issue please?
I may have worded that wrong, it's less of an "issue" and more of a
complicated code to deal with locking, specifically the extra local
variable to keep track whether we are locking or not.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-06 11:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-06 10:55 [PATCH 01/11] mm: frontswap: remove casting from function calls through ops structure Sasha Levin
2012-06-06 10:55 ` [PATCH 02/11] mm: frontswap: trivial coding convention issues Sasha Levin
2012-06-06 10:55 ` [PATCH 03/11] mm: frontswap: split out __frontswap_curr_pages Sasha Levin
2012-06-06 10:55 ` [PATCH 04/11] mm: frontswap: split out __frontswap_unuse_pages Sasha Levin
2012-06-06 10:55 ` [PATCH 05/11] mm: frontswap: split frontswap_shrink further to eliminate locking games Sasha Levin
2012-06-06 11:30 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-06-06 11:37 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2012-06-07 18:28 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-06-06 10:55 ` [PATCH 06/11] mm: frontswap: make all branches of if statement in put page consistent Sasha Levin
2012-06-07 18:30 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-06-07 20:56 ` Dan Magenheimer
2012-06-06 10:55 ` [PATCH 07/11] mm: frontswap: remove unnecessary check during initialization Sasha Levin
2012-06-07 18:31 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-06-06 10:55 ` [PATCH 08/11] mm: frontswap: add tracing support Sasha Levin
2012-06-07 18:40 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-06-06 10:55 ` [PATCH 09/11] mm: frontswap: remove unused variable in init Sasha Levin
2012-06-06 10:55 ` [PATCH 10/11] mm: frontswap: split out function to clear a page out Sasha Levin
2012-06-06 10:55 ` [PATCH 11/11] mm: frontswap: remove unneeded headers Sasha Levin
2012-06-07 18:42 ` [PATCH 01/11] mm: frontswap: remove casting from function calls through ops structure Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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