linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c

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Date:	Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:49:14 -0800
From:	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@...igh.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:31:20 -0800
> "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@...igh.org> wrote:
> 
>> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 14:29 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>
>>>> As Christoph says, it's very much preferred that code be migrated over to
>>>> kmap_atomic().  Partly because kmap() is deadlockable in situations where a
>>>> large number of threads are trying to take two kmaps at the same time and
>>>> we run out.  This happened in the past, but incidences have gone away,
>>>> probably because of kmap->kmap_atomic conversions.
>>>> From which callsite have you measured problems?
>>> CONFIG_HIGHPTE code in -rt was horrid. I'll do some measurements on
>>> mainline.
>>>
>> CONFIG_HIGHPTE is always horrid -we've known that for years.
> 
> We have?  What's wrong with it?  <looks around for bug reports>

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0307.0/0463.html

July 2003.


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