Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261358AbVBHAZ4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 19:25:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261357AbVBHAZr (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 19:25:47 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:44708 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261362AbVBHAZe (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 19:25:34 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:30:35 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Christoph Lameter Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: prezeroing V6 [2/3]: ScrubD Message-Id: <20050207163035.7596e4dd.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <1106828124.19262.45.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <20050202153256.GA19615@logos.cnet> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 658 Lines: 16 Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Adds management of ZEROED and NOT_ZEROED pages and a background daemon > called scrubd. What were the benchmarking results for this work? I think you had some, but this is pretty vital info, so it should be retained in the changelogs. Having one kscrubd per node seems like the right thing to do. Should we be managing the kernel threads with the kthread() API? - 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/