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From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: Zoltan Menyhart <Zoltan.Menyhart@bull.net>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Zoltan.Menyhart@free.fr
Subject: Re: Any reason for passing "tlb" to "free_pgtables()" by address?
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 13:41:12 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605051337520.6945@blonde.wat.veritas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <445B2EBD.4020803@bull.net>

On Fri, 5 May 2006, Zoltan Menyhart wrote:
> Apparently, there is no reason for passing "tlb" to "free_pgtables()"
> by address, because there is no need for re-scheduling inside this
> function => no other "mmu_gather" can / will be used.

You're right.  Well, actually, it's been shown that there _is_ a need
for rescheduling inside that function (high latency), but we've not
yet settled on the right way to go about that - mmu_gathering needs
overhaul to avoid disabling preemption, something both Nick and I
have worked on intermittently.

Personally I'd prefer not to make your change right now - it seems
a shame to make that cosmetic change without addressing the real
latency issue; but I've no strong feeling against your patch.

Hugh

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-05 12:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-05 10:53 Zoltan Menyhart
2006-05-05 12:41 ` Hugh Dickins [this message]
2006-05-08 21:50   ` Zoltan Menyhart
2006-05-09  1:40     ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-09 11:23     ` Hugh Dickins
2006-05-09 19:30       ` Zoltan Menyhart

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