From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org,
MOLNAR Ingo <mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu>
Subject: Re: shrink_mmap SMP race fix
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:43:10 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0003301735420.593-100000@alpha.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0003301639540.368-100000@alpha.random>
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>[..] If something the higher is the priority the
>harder we should shrink the cache (that's the opposite that the patch
>achieves). Usually priority is always zero and the below check has no
>effect. [..]
thinko, I noticed I was wrong about this, apologies (prio start with 6 and
0 is the most severe one).
anyway I keep not enjoying such path for all the other reasons. It should
at _least_ be done outside the loop before calculating `count`.
Andrea
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-03-30 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-30 15:16 Andrea Arcangeli
2000-03-30 15:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2000-03-30 17:17 ` Rik van Riel
2000-03-30 18:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-03-30 16:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-03-30 17:14 ` Rik van Riel
2000-03-30 18:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-03-30 19:34 ` Rik van Riel
2000-03-30 20:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-03-30 21:19 ` Rik van Riel
2000-03-30 21:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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