From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from neon.transmeta.com (neon-best.transmeta.com [206.184.214.10]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA09520 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:58:17 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 09:54:50 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...] In-Reply-To: <199901121606.QAA04800@dax.scot.redhat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Savochkin Andrey Vladimirovich , Andrea Arcangeli , steve@netplus.net, brent verner , "Garst R. Reese" , Kalle Andersson , Zlatko Calusic , Ben McCann , Alan Cox , bredelin@ucsd.edu, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, Rik van Riel , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > On 11 Jan 1999 00:04:11 -0600, ebiederm+eric@ccr.net (Eric W. Biederman) > said: > > > Oh, and just as a side note we are currently unfairly penalizing > > threaded programs by doing for_each_task instead of for_each_mm in the > > swapout code... > > I know, on my TODO list... Actually, this one is _really_ easy to fix. The truly trivial fix is to just move "swap_cnt" into the mm structure, and you're all done. You'd still walk the list with for_each_task(), but it no longer matters. Linus -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org