Re: [PATCH] Move cache_reap out of timer context

[Dimitri Sivanich]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 08:52:56PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I'm submitting two patches associated with moving cache_reap
> > functionality out of timer context.  Note that these patches do not
> > make any further optimizations to cache_reap at this time.
> > 
> > The first patch adds a function similiar to schedule_delayed_work to
> > allow work to be scheduled on another cpu.
> > 
> > The second patch makes use of schedule_delayed_work_on to schedule
> > cache_reap to run from keventd.
> > 
> > These patches apply to 2.6.8-rc1.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@xxxxxxx>
> 
> looks good to me and i agree with moving this unbound execution-time
> function out of irq context. I suspect this should see some -mm testing
> first/too?
> 
If others could test this patch on whatever platforms they have available, I
would very much appreciate it.
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