From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx185.postini.com [74.125.245.185]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D43A86B0062 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 14:36:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 14:28:56 -0400 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/11] mm: frontswap: split frontswap_shrink further to eliminate locking games Message-ID: <20120607182856.GZ9472@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <1338980115-2394-1-git-send-email-levinsasha928@gmail.com> <1338980115-2394-5-git-send-email-levinsasha928@gmail.com> <1338982637.3292.63.camel@lappy> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1338982637.3292.63.camel@lappy> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Sasha Levin Cc: konrad@darnok.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dan.magenheimer@oracle.com On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 01:37:17PM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 07:30 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > > > On Jun 6, 2012 6:55 AM, "Sasha Levin" wrote: > > > > > > Split frontswap_shrink to eliminate the locking issues in the > > original code. > > > > Can you describe the locking issue please? > > I may have worded that wrong, it's less of an "issue" and more of a > complicated code to deal with locking, specifically the extra local > variable to keep track whether we are locking or not. So "simplying the locking"? -- 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