From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753025AbXDIWDV (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 18:03:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753539AbXDIWDV (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 18:03:21 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:44740 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753025AbXDIWDU (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 18:03:20 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 15:03:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Andrew Morton cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: [QUICKLIST 1/4] Quicklists for page table pages V5 In-Reply-To: <20070409144107.21287fb8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20070409182509.8559.33823.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> <20070409144107.21287fb8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:25:09 -0700 (PDT) > Christoph Lameter 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?