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Subject: Re: mlock: mlocked pages are unevictable
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 22:30 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> The problem appears to be calling flush_work(), which is rather heavy
> handed. We could do schedule_on_each_cpu() using a completion.
> 
> Which I think is a nicer solution (if sufficient of course).

Ah, never mind, the flush_work() is already doing the right thing using
barriers and completions.