From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 20:52:56 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move cache_reap out of timer context Message-ID: <20040717185256.GA5815@elte.hu> References: <20040714180942.GA18425@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040714180942.GA18425@sgi.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Dimitri Sivanich Cc: Manfred Spraul , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net List-ID: * Dimitri Sivanich 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 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 -- 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