From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:22:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [QUICKLIST 1/5] Quicklists for page table pages V4 In-Reply-To: <20070327010624.GA2986@holomorphy.com> Message-ID: References: <20070323062843.19502.19827.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> <20070322223927.bb4caf43.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070322234848.100abb3d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070323222133.f17090cf.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070326102651.6d59207b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070327010624.GA2986@holomorphy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > Not that clameter really needs my help, but I agree with his position > on several fronts, and advocate accordingly, so here is where I'm at. Yes thank you. I386 is not my field, I have no interest per se in improving i386 performance and without your help I would have to drop this and keep the special casing in SLUB for i386. Generic tlb.h changes may also help to introduce quicklists to x86_64. The current quicklist patches can only work on higher levels due to the freeing of ptes via tlb_remove_page(). -- 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