From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: slub-i386-support.patch
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 00:42:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070511004200.6d30152e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070511082930.GP2012@bingen.suse.de>
On Fri, 11 May 2007 10:29:30 +0200 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> > I'm guessing (haven't rechecked source) that the cpu_idle() call comes
> > about because the top level pgd of a process gets freed very late in
> > its exit, and after a great flurry of processes have just exited,
> > perhaps there was nothing to free up the accumulation. Though
> > it still strikes me as an odd place to do it.
>
> I always found it odd and probably the wrong place too.
so... what's the bottom line here, guys? Should we change that patch?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-11 7:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-10 20:03 slub-i386-support.patch Hugh Dickins
2007-05-10 20:17 ` slub-i386-support.patch Andrew Morton
2007-05-10 20:31 ` slub-i386-support.patch Christoph Lameter
2007-05-10 20:50 ` slub-i386-support.patch David Miller
2007-05-10 20:31 ` slub-i386-support.patch William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-10 20:35 ` slub-i386-support.patch Christoph Lameter
2007-05-10 21:09 ` slub-i386-support.patch William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-10 21:28 ` slub-i386-support.patch Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 23:35 ` slub-i386-support.patch William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-10 21:22 ` slub-i386-support.patch Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 23:14 ` slub-i386-support.patch Hugh Dickins
2007-05-11 0:07 ` slub-i386-support.patch William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-11 1:08 ` slub-i386-support.patch William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-11 5:09 ` slub-i386-support.patch Christoph Lameter
2007-05-11 7:43 ` slub-i386-support.patch William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-11 1:42 ` slub-i386-support.patch William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-11 8:29 ` slub-i386-support.patch Andi Kleen
2007-05-11 7:42 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-05-11 7:54 ` slub-i386-support.patch William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-11 16:15 ` slub-i386-support.patch Christoph Lameter
2007-05-11 20:47 ` slub-i386-support.patch William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-11 9:27 ` slub-i386-support.patch Hugh Dickins
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