From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 15:03:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [QUICKLIST 1/4] Quicklists for page table pages V5 In-Reply-To: <20070409144107.21287fb8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20070409182509.8559.33823.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> <20070409144107.21287fb8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, William Lee Irwin III List-ID: On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:25:09 -0700 (PDT) > Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > Quicklists for page table pages V5 > > So... we skipped i386 this time? > > I'd have gone squeamish if it was included, due to the mystery crash when > we (effectively) set the list size to zero. Someone(tm) should look into > that - who knows, it might indicate a problem in generic code. Yeah too many scary monsters in the i386 arch code. Maybe Bill Irwin can take a look at how to make this work? He liked the benchmarking code that I posted so he may have the tools to insure that it works right. Maybe he can figure out some additional tricks on how to make quicklists work better? -- 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