Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751716AbWBWTeX (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:34:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751717AbWBWTeW (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:34:22 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:7565 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751716AbWBWTeW (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:34:22 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:33:31 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Christoph Lameter Cc: alokk@calsoftinc.com, manfred@colorfullife.com, penberg@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Slab: Node rotor for freeing alien caches and remote per cpu pages. Message-Id: <20060223113331.6b345e1b.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-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: 562 Lines: 12 Christoph Lameter wrote: > > The cache reaper currently tries to free all alien caches and all remote > per cpu pages in each pass of cache_reap. umm, why? We have a reap timer per cpu - why doesn't each CPU drain its own stuff and its own node's stuff and leave the other nodes&cpus alone? - 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/