From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pg0-f72.google.com (mail-pg0-f72.google.com [74.125.83.72]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FB926B0038 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 05:41:43 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pg0-f72.google.com with SMTP id l19so9240796pgo.4 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 02:41:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org. [65.50.211.133]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h12si8637602pfi.247.2017.11.20.02.41.41 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 20 Nov 2017 02:41:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 02:41:29 -0800 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm,vmscan: Kill global shrinker lock. Message-ID: <20171120104129.GA25042@infradead.org> References: <1510609063-3327-1-git-send-email-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> <20171117173521.GA21692@infradead.org> <20171120092526.llj2q3lqbbxwn4g4@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20171120093309.GA19627@infradead.org> <20171120094237.z6h3kx3ne5ld64pl@dhcp22.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171120094237.z6h3kx3ne5ld64pl@dhcp22.suse.cz> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Michal Hocko Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Tetsuo Handa , Minchan Kim , Huang Ying , Mel Gorman , Vladimir Davydov , Johannes Weiner , Andrew Morton , Shakeel Butt , Greg Thelen , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Paul E. McKenney" On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 10:42:37AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > The patch has been dropped because allnoconfig failed to compile back > then http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAP=VYLr0rPWi1aeuk4w1On9CYRNmnEWwJgGtaX=wEvGaBURtrg@mail.gmail.com > I have problem to find the follow up discussion though. The main > argument was that SRC is not generally available and so the core > kernel should rely on it. Paul, isthere any good reason to not use SRCU in the core kernel and instead try to reimplement it using atomic counters? -- 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