Re: [QUICKLIST 1/4] Quicklists for page table pages V5

Christoph Lameter
2007-04-09T22:03:19Z

On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:25:09 -0700 (PDT)
> Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
>
> > Quicklists for page table pages V5
>
> So... we skipped i386 this time?
>
> I'd have gone squeamish if it was included, due to the mystery crash when
> we (effectively) set the list size to zero. Someone(tm) should look into
> that - who knows, it might indicate a problem in generic code.

Yeah too many scary monsters in the i386 arch code. Maybe Bill Irwin can
take a look at how to make this work? He liked the benchmarking code that
I posted so he may have the tools to insure that it works right. Maybe he
can figure out some additional tricks on how to make quicklists work
better?