From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750844AbXDKKGU (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:06:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751970AbXDKKGT (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:06:19 -0400 Received: from amsfep15-int.chello.nl ([62.179.120.10]:54212 "EHLO amsfep15-int.chello.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750844AbXDKKGT (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:06:19 -0400 Subject: Re: Why kmem_cache_free occupy CPU for more than 10 seconds? From: Peter Zijlstra To: Paul Jackson Cc: Zhao Forrest , penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070411025305.b9131062.pj@sgi.com> References: <84144f020704102353r7dcc3538u2e34237d3496630e@mail.gmail.com> <20070411025305.b9131062.pj@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:06:16 +0200 Message-Id: <1176285976.6893.27.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 02:53 -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > I'm confused - which end of ths stack is up? > > cpuset_exit doesn't call do_exit, rather it's the other > way around. But put_files_struct doesn't call do_exit, > rather do_exit calls __exit_files calls put_files_struct. I'm guessing its x86_64 which generates crap traces.