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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [QUICKLIST 3/4] Quicklist support for x86_64
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:49:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704092049.34317.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704091144270.8783@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

> 
> It has to be done in sync with tlb flushing.

Why?

> Doing that on memory pressure  
> would complicate things significantly. 

Again why? 

> Also idling means that the cache  
> grows cold.

Does it? Unless you worry about interrupts nothing in idle
is going to thrash caches.

-Andi
 

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-09 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-09 18:25 [QUICKLIST 1/4] Quicklists for page table pages V5 Christoph Lameter
2007-04-09 18:25 ` [QUICKLIST 2/4] Quicklist support for IA64 Christoph Lameter
2007-04-09 18:25 ` [QUICKLIST 3/4] Quicklist support for x86_64 Christoph Lameter
2007-04-09 18:43   ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-09 18:46     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-09 18:49       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-04-09 18:51         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-09 18:53           ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-09 18:56             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-09 21:28   ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-09 22:01     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-09 18:25 ` [QUICKLIST 4/4] Quicklist support for sparc64 Christoph Lameter, David Miller
2007-04-09 18:48 ` [QUICKLIST 1/4] Quicklists for page table pages V5 Andrew Morton
2007-04-09 18:50   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-09 21:27 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-09 21:41 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-09 22:03   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-10  0:26     ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-10  0:53       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-10  4:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-11  4:04   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-11  4:18     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-11  5:41       ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-11  6:15         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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