Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Reclaim can be called with interrupts disabled in atomic reclaim. > vmscan.c is currently using spinlock_irq(). Switch to spin_lock_irqsave().
I like the idea in principle. If this fully works out we could potentially keep less memory free by default which would be a good thing in general: free memory is bad memory. But would be interesting to measure what the lock changes do to interrupt latency. Probably nothing good. A more benign alternative might be to just set a per CPU flag during these critical sections and then only do atomic reclaim on a local interrupt when the flag is not set. That would make it a little less reliable, but much less intrusive and with some luck still give many of the benefits. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
