From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750799AbWBQPmm (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:42:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751469AbWBQPmm (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:42:42 -0500 Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.153]:60314 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750799AbWBQPml (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:42:41 -0500 Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:11:47 +0530 From: Dipankar Sarma To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Paul E.McKenney" Subject: [PATCH 0/2] RCU updates Message-ID: <20060217154147.GL29846@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: dipankar@in.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Here are the patches that I have been testing that should help some of the latency and OOM issues (file limit) that we had discussed in the past. If the patchset looks ok, we should queue them up in -mm for some testing before merging. I have lightly tested the patchset on both ppc64 and x86_64 using ltp, dbench etc. Update since the last time I published - file counting stuff uses percpu_counter. Thanks Dipankar