Re: [patch] mm: reduce pagetable-freeing latencies

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Jul 24 2007 - 07:18:26 EST


Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > What a truly putrid patch. I am suspecting that this was a quick
> > get-you-out-of-trouble thing, which then got forgotten about.
> >
> > We have two months to do the "right fix". Please?
>
> Working on it...

Ideally the patch would DTRT even on non preemptible kernels,
aka do cond_resched()s when needed.

-Andi
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