From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx121.postini.com [74.125.245.121]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BBA8B6B0080 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:51:57 -0500 (EST) Received: by yenm2 with SMTP id m2so700637yen.14 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:51:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:51:53 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: vmscan: deactivate isolated pages with lru lock released In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Hillf Danton Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Andrew Morton , LKML On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Hillf Danton wrote: > Spinners on other CPUs, if any, could take the lru lock and do their jobs while > isolated pages are deactivated on the current CPU if the lock is released > actively. And no risk of race raised as pages are already queued on locally > private list. > > > Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton Acked-by: David Rientjes -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org