From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail138.messagelabs.com (mail138.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 74E806B004D for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:05:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (smtp.ultrahosting.com [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ultrahosting.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 546C282C7EF for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:05:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp.ultrahosting.com ([74.213.175.254]) by localhost (smtp.ultrahosting.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LT8ZBQhnc7+k for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:05:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gentwo.org (unknown [74.213.171.31]) by smtp.ultrahosting.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53BC182C7AC for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:05:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:05:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Reduce searching in the page allocator fast-path In-Reply-To: <20090818165340.GB13435@csn.ul.ie> Message-ID: References: <1250594162-17322-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <20090818165340.GB13435@csn.ul.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Mel Gorman Cc: Linux Memory Management List , Nick Piggin , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-ID: On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Mel Gorman wrote: > Can you point me to which patchset you are talking about specifically that > uses per-cpu atomics in the hot path? There are a lot of per-cpu patches > related to you that have been posted in the last few months and I'm not sure > what any of their merge status' is. The following patch just moved the page allocator to use the new per cpu allocator. It does not use per cpu atomic yet but its possible then. http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=124527414206546&w=2 -- 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