Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753139AbYCIMvs (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Mar 2008 08:51:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751485AbYCIMvj (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Mar 2008 08:51:39 -0400 Received: from fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.35]:38852 "EHLO fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751476AbYCIMvi (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Mar 2008 08:51:38 -0400 Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:51:08 +0900 From: KOSAKI Motohiro To: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: quicklists confuse meminfo Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, Thomas Gleixner , LKML , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Christoph Lameter , Bart Van Assche In-Reply-To: <20080309123432.GA3267@elte.hu> References: <20080309120940.GA1695@elte.hu> <20080309123432.GA3267@elte.hu> Message-Id: <20080309214951.C6E4.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.42 [ja] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 788 Lines: 23 > hm, Thomas pointed it out that this wont solve all the problems as > quicklists have a built-in "preserve me" throttle (which is rather > stupid). > > the right solution is to get rid of quicklists altogether (Thomas > expects to have patches for that later today). > > If anyone implements a _sane_ general purpose allocator that can > preserve constructed objects then i'm all for utilizing it in x86 too, > but quicklists arent that mechanism ... Apparently, my patch seems to have been too late ;) please forget it. - kosaki -- 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/