On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:27:21 -0500, Martin Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've made a bunch of changes that Paul suggested. I've also responded > to his concerns further down. Paul correctly pointed out that this > patch uses some helper functions that are part of the cpusets patch. I > should have mentioned this before.
<snip> > This patch introduces a new sysctl for NUMA systems that tries to drop > as much of the page cache as possible from a set of nodes. The > motivation for this patch is for setting up High Performance Computing > jobs, where initial memory placement is very important to overall > performance. <snip> > + /* wait for the kernel threads to complete */ > + while (atomic_read(&num_toss_threads_active) > 0) { > + __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); > + schedule_timeout(10); > + } <snip> Would it be possible to use msleep_interruptible() here? Or is it a strict check every 10 ticks, regardless of HZ? Could a comment be inserted indicating which is the case? Thanks, Nish - 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/