linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Reduce searching in the page allocator fast-path

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Date:	Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:05:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
cc:	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Reduce searching in the page allocator
 fast-path

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Mel Gorman wrote:

> Can you point me to which patchset you are talking about specifically that
> uses per-cpu atomics in the hot path? There are a lot of per-cpu patches
> related to you that have been posted in the last few months and I'm not sure
> what any of their merge status' is.

The following patch just moved the page allocator to use the new per cpu
allocator. It does not use per cpu atomic yet but its possible then.

http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=124527414206546&w=2
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