Re: [RFC 4/9] Atomic reclaim: Save irq flags in vmscan.c

Andi Kleen
2007-08-14T22:22:38Z

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 03:07:10PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> There are more spinlocks needed. So we would just check the whole bunch
> and fail if any of them are used?

Yes zone_flag would apply to all of them.

>
> > do things with zone locks
> > }
> >
> > The interrupt handler shouldn't touch zone_flag. If it wants
> > to it would need to be converted to a local_t and incremented/decremented
> > (should be about the same cost at least on architectures with sane
> > local_t implementation)
>
> That would mean we need to fork the code for reclaim?

Not with the local_t increment.

-Andi