From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261378AbUGQSwt (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:52:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261405AbUGQSwt (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:52:49 -0400 Received: from mx1.elte.hu ([157.181.1.137]:23773 "EHLO mx1.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261378AbUGQSwr (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:52:47 -0400 Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 20:52:56 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Dimitri Sivanich Cc: Manfred Spraul , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move cache_reap out of timer context Message-ID: <20040717185256.GA5815@elte.hu> References: <20040714180942.GA18425@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040714180942.GA18425@sgi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-ELTE-SpamVersion: MailScanner 4.31.6-itk1 (ELTE 1.2) SpamAssassin 2.63 ClamAV 0.73 X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-4.9, required 5.9, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -4.90 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamScore: -4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Dimitri Sivanich wrote: > I'm submitting two patches associated with moving cache_reap > functionality out of timer context. Note that these patches do not > make any further optimizations to cache_reap at this time. > > The first patch adds a function similiar to schedule_delayed_work to > allow work to be scheduled on another cpu. > > The second patch makes use of schedule_delayed_work_on to schedule > cache_reap to run from keventd. > > These patches apply to 2.6.8-rc1. > > Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich looks good to me and i agree with moving this unbound execution-time function out of irq context. I suspect this should see some -mm testing first/too? Ingo