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

Andi Kleen
2007-08-14T22:10:25Z

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 02:37:27PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > > We already have such a flag in the zone structure
> >
> > Zone structure is not strictly CPU local so it's broader
> > than needed. But it might work.
>
> We could convert this into a per cpu array?

Perhaps. That would make it more expensive to read for
its current users though.

> But that still creates lots of overhead each time we take the lru lock!

A lot of overhead in what way? Setting a flag in a cache hot
per CPU data variable shouldn't be more than a few cycles.

-Andi