Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760788AbXEKHmU (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 May 2007 03:42:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755159AbXEKHmL (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 May 2007 03:42:11 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([65.172.181.25]:47662 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755369AbXEKHmK (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 May 2007 03:42:10 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 00:42:00 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Andi Kleen Cc: Hugh Dickins , William Lee Irwin III , Linus Torvalds , Christoph Lameter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: slub-i386-support.patch Message-Id: <20070511004200.6d30152e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070511082930.GP2012@bingen.suse.de> References: <20070510203102.GO19966@holomorphy.com> <20070511082930.GP2012@bingen.suse.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-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: 779 Lines: 16 On Fri, 11 May 2007 10:29:30 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote: > > 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. so... what's the bottom line here, guys? Should we change that patch? - 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/