linux-kernel - Re: slub-i386-support.patch

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Message-Id: <20070511004200.6d30152e.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Fri, 11 May 2007 00:42:00 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: slub-i386-support.patch

On Fri, 11 May 2007 10:29:30 +0200 Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> wrote:

> > I'm guessing (haven't rechecked source) that the cpu_idle() call comes
> > about because the top level pgd of a process gets freed very late in
> > its exit, and after a great flurry of processes have just exited,
> > perhaps there was nothing to free up the accumulation.  Though
> > it still strikes me as an odd place to do it.
> 
> I always found it odd and probably the wrong place too.

so... what's the bottom line here, guys?  Should we change that patch?
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