Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030340AbVLHAfc (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 19:35:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965070AbVLHAfc (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 19:35:32 -0500 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:15549 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965069AbVLHAfb (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 19:35:31 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 16:35:20 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter To: Nick Piggin cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andi Kleen , Marcelo Tosatti Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] Framework for accurate node based statistics In-Reply-To: <43977A92.3090206@yahoo.com.au> Message-ID: References: <20051206182843.19188.82045.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> <439619F9.4030905@yahoo.com.au> <439684C0.9090107@yahoo.com.au> <43976949.8010205@yahoo.com.au> <43977A92.3090206@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 560 Lines: 14 On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: > > The framework provides a similar approach by keeping differential counters > > for each processor. > But the accounting delay has the unbounded error problem that the > batching approach does not. Ok. We could switch to batching in order to avoid using the slab reaper. - 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/