Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263997AbTKSKuy (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2003 05:50:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264001AbTKSKuy (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2003 05:50:54 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([199.26.172.102]:169 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263997AbTKSKuw (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2003 05:50:52 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 02:50:49 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test9-mm4 Message-ID: <20031119105049.GS22764@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org References: <20031118225120.1d213db2.akpm@osdl.org> <20031119090223.GO22764@holomorphy.com> <20031119011951.66300f0d.akpm@osdl.org> <20031119093340.GP22764@holomorphy.com> <20031119101322.GQ22764@holomorphy.com> <20031119103419.GR22764@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031119103419.GR22764@holomorphy.com> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1374 Lines: 33 On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 02:34:19AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > The following, incremental atop the smp_local_irq_*() removal, turns > shrink_pagetable_cache() into a set_shrinker()-registered shrinker_t. > I'm not entirely sure how good an idea this is given my prior remarks > about the vmscan.c code skipping shrink_slab() under highmem pressure. > Maybe the proper solution is teaching true slab shrinkers to honor > the gfp_mask argument? > This is also untested (apart from compiletesting). If any of this goes anywhere, I probably deserve a wee bit of credit for getting it done (well, I did put some time into it). Here's me patting myself on the back, incremental atop the previous two. -- wli diff -prauN mm4-2.6.0-test9-4/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c mm4-2.6.0-test9-5/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c --- mm4-2.6.0-test9-4/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c 2003-11-19 02:26:04.000000000 -0800 +++ mm4-2.6.0-test9-5/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c 2003-11-19 02:46:50.000000000 -0800 @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ /* * linux/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c + * highpte-compatible pte cacheing, William Irwin, IBM, June 2003 */ #include - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/