On Monday 09 April 2007 20:25:20 Christoph Lameter wrote:

>  #endif /* _X86_64_PGALLOC_H */
> Index: linux-2.6.21-rc5-mm4/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.21-rc5-mm4.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c    2007-04-07 
> 18:07:47.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.21-rc5-mm4/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c 2007-04-07 
> 18:09:30.000000000 -0700
> @@ -207,6 +207,7 @@
>                       if (__get_cpu_var(cpu_idle_state))
>                               __get_cpu_var(cpu_idle_state) = 0;
>  
> +                     check_pgt_cache();

Wouldn't it be better to do that on memory pressure only (register
it as a shrinker)?

>               rmb();
>                       idle = pm_idle;
>                       if (!idle)
> Index: linux-2.6.21-rc5-mm4/arch/x86_64/kernel/smp.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.21-rc5-mm4.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/smp.c        2007-04-07 
> 18:07:47.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.21-rc5-mm4/arch/x86_64/kernel/smp.c     2007-04-07 
> 18:09:30.000000000 -0700
> @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@
>       }
>       if (!cpus_empty(cpu_mask))
>               flush_tlb_others(cpu_mask, mm, FLUSH_ALL);
> -
> +     check_pgt_cache();

Why is that here?

>       preempt_enable();
>  }


-Andi
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