linux-kernel - Re: [resend][PATCH v2] mlock() doesn't wait to finish lru_add_drain

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Date:	Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:25:59 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Oleg Nesterov <onestero@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [resend][PATCH v2] mlock() doesn't wait to finish lru_add_drain_all()

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:17:48 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro said:

> > How did you work out why the lru_add_drain_all() is present in
> > sys_mlock() anyway?  Neither the code nor the original changelog tell
> > us.  Who do I thwap for that?  Nick and his reviewers.  Sigh.
> 
> [Umm, My dictionaly don't tell me the meaning of "thwap".  An meaning of
> an imitative word strongly depend on culture. Thus, I probably
> misunderstand this paragraph.]

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030210&mode=classic

(biff, thwap, it's all the same - the sound of a cluebat impacting somebody ;)

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