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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch 2/3] fast VMA recycling
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:22:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43FD9AEF.1040204@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200602231200.42990.ak@suse.de>

Andi Kleen wrote:
>> see voluntary preempt.
> 
> Only when its time slice is used up 

or if some other thread gets a higher dynamic prio
> but then it would sleep a bit later 
> in user space. 

... but that is without the semaphore held! (and that is the entire 
point of this patch, move the sleep moments to outside the lock holding 
area as much as possible, to reduce lock hold times)



  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-23 11:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-23  9:17 [Patch 0/3] threaded mmap tweaks Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-23  9:29 ` [Patch 3/3] prepopulate/cache cleared pages Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-23  9:41   ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-23 12:41     ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-23 13:06       ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-23 13:15         ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-23 13:29           ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-24  6:36             ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-24  6:49               ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-24  7:01                 ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-24 12:33                   ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-24 12:55                     ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-24  9:15               ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-24  9:26                 ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-24 12:27                   ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-24 15:31                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2006-02-25 16:48                     ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-25 17:22                       ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-28 22:30       ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-23 18:25   ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-23  9:30 ` [Patch 2/3] fast VMA recycling Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-23  9:42   ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-23  9:48     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-23 10:05       ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-23 10:15         ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-23 11:00           ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-23 11:22             ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-02-23 11:57               ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-24 18:52       ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-24 19:05         ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-24 19:09           ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-23 16:37   ` Benjamin LaHaise

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