From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 09:43:29 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Subject: Re: refill_inactive_zone question Message-ID: <89340000.1093711408@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Hugh Dickins , Marcelo Tosatti Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@osdl.org List-ID: --Hugh Dickins wrote (on Saturday, August 28, 2004 17:08:23 +0100): > On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: >> >> Oh thanks! I see that. So you just dropped the bit spinlocked and changed >> mapcount to an atomic variable, right? > > That's it, yes. It needed a little more rework than that > (see ChangeLog) but that's the main thrust. > >> Cool. Do you have any numbers on big SMP systems for that change? > > Sorry, no. When I sent out the patches a second time to Andrew (didn't > copy LKML since nothing really changed from the first time in July), > I did CC Martin in the hope that he might feel the urge to run up > some numbers (or at least let him be aware of that change lest he > misinterpret numbers), but I think he was busy with other stuff. The lab was down for rewiring, and then I forgot about it - sorry. Can you resend me the patch again, and I'll get off my ass and do something about it? ;-) M. -- 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