From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 02:50:49 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test9-mm4 Message-ID: <20031119105049.GS22764@holomorphy.com> References: <20031118225120.1d213db2.akpm@osdl.org> <20031119090223.GO22764@holomorphy.com> <20031119011951.66300f0d.akpm@osdl.org> <20031119093340.GP22764@holomorphy.com> <20031119101322.GQ22764@holomorphy.com> <20031119103419.GR22764@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031119103419.GR22764@holomorphy.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 02:34:19AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > The following, incremental atop the smp_local_irq_*() removal, turns > shrink_pagetable_cache() into a set_shrinker()-registered shrinker_t. > I'm not entirely sure how good an idea this is given my prior remarks > about the vmscan.c code skipping shrink_slab() under highmem pressure. > Maybe the proper solution is teaching true slab shrinkers to honor > the gfp_mask argument? > This is also untested (apart from compiletesting). If any of this goes anywhere, I probably deserve a wee bit of credit for getting it done (well, I did put some time into it). Here's me patting myself on the back, incremental atop the previous two. -- wli diff -prauN mm4-2.6.0-test9-4/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c mm4-2.6.0-test9-5/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c --- mm4-2.6.0-test9-4/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c 2003-11-19 02:26:04.000000000 -0800 +++ mm4-2.6.0-test9-5/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c 2003-11-19 02:46:50.000000000 -0800 @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ /* * linux/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c + * highpte-compatible pte cacheing, William Irwin, IBM, June 2003 */ #include -- 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/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org