From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 16:29:38 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: [PATCH] rmap 13 Message-ID: <20020420232938.GH21206@holomorphy.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: brief message Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com List-ID: On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 05:32:19PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > Better SMP scalability, first batch of lock breakup work. Still > experimental, but testing is very much welcome... ... [general comments] > My big TODO items for a next release are: > - O(1) page launder - currently functional but slow, needs to be tuned > - pte-highmem If I can clarify a bit, I'm deferring submission of the subsequent bits of the lock breakups in order to to expose the various stages of it to wider testing individually. One can't be too careful with these changes. Also, Martin Bligh is the original author of the per-page pte_chain locking patch. More to come, Bill -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/