Re: What was the problem with quicklists and x86-64?

Christoph Lameter
2007-12-13T22:37:20Z

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> > No this may mean that the problem does not exist on powerpc since it
> > seems to be okay to free pages before all processors have flushed the
> > TLBs? Or are you deferrring the freeing of the pages via RCU?
>
> I'm deferring the freeing with RCU.

The deferral works on a page level or for the whole list of pages that
have been gathered?