linux-kernel - Re: [QUICKLIST 1/4] Quicklists for page table pages V5

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704091501230.2761@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Mon, 9 Apr 2007 15:03:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ak@...e.de,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>
Subject: Re: [QUICKLIST 1/4] Quicklists for page table pages V5

On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Mon,  9 Apr 2007 11:25:09 -0700 (PDT)
> Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> wrote:
> 
> > Quicklists for page table pages V5
> 
> So... we skipped i386 this time?
> 
> I'd have gone squeamish if it was included, due to the mystery crash when
> we (effectively) set the list size to zero.  Someone(tm) should look into 
> that - who knows, it might indicate a problem in generic code.

Yeah too many scary monsters in the i386 arch code. Maybe Bill Irwin can 
take a look at how to make this work? He liked the benchmarking code that 
I posted so he may have the tools to insure that it works right. Maybe he 
can figure out some additional tricks on how to make quicklists work 
better?

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