From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move cache_reap out of timer context
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 20:52:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040717185256.GA5815@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040714180942.GA18425@sgi.com>
* Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> wrote:
> I'm submitting two patches associated with moving cache_reap
> functionality out of timer context. Note that these patches do not
> make any further optimizations to cache_reap at this time.
>
> The first patch adds a function similiar to schedule_delayed_work to
> allow work to be scheduled on another cpu.
>
> The second patch makes use of schedule_delayed_work_on to schedule
> cache_reap to run from keventd.
>
> These patches apply to 2.6.8-rc1.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
looks good to me and i agree with moving this unbound execution-time
function out of irq context. I suspect this should see some -mm testing
first/too?
Ingo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-17 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-14 18:09 Dimitri Sivanich
2004-07-17 18:52 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2004-07-19 14:42 ` Dimitri Sivanich
2004-07-28 7:03 ` Andrew Morton
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