Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760307AbXEKHc0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 May 2007 03:32:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756727AbXEKHcU (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 May 2007 03:32:20 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:42701 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755143AbXEKHcT (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 May 2007 03:32:19 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 10:29:30 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Hugh Dickins Cc: William Lee Irwin III , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Andi Kleen , Christoph Lameter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: slub-i386-support.patch Message-ID: <20070511082930.GP2012@bingen.suse.de> References: <20070510203102.GO19966@holomorphy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 632 Lines: 13 > I'm guessing (haven't rechecked source) that the cpu_idle() call comes > about because the top level pgd of a process gets freed very late in > its exit, and after a great flurry of processes have just exited, > perhaps there was nothing to free up the accumulation. Though > it still strikes me as an odd place to do it. I always found it odd and probably the wrong place too. -Andi - 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/