linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/21] mm: Preemptibility -v6

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Date:	Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:02:37 +0100
From:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/21] mm: Preemptibility -v6

On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:10:39 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 23:12 -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> 
> > 11/21 s390-preemptible_mmu_gather.patch
> >       I'd prefer __tlb_alloc_page(), with __GFP_NOWARN as suggested above.
> >       mm/pgtable.c still has DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mmu_gather, mmu_gathers).
> 
> Martin, while doing the below DEFINE_PER_CPU removal I saw you had a
> bunch of RCU table removal thingies in arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c, could
> s390 use the generic bits like sparc and powerpc (see patch 16)?

Maybe, I will have a look at it.

-- 
blue skies,
   Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.

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