From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [QUICKLIST 3/4] Quicklist support for x86_64 Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:49:34 +0200 References: <20070409182509.8559.33823.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> <200704092043.14335.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704092049.34317.ak@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > > 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 -- 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: email@kvack.org