On Mon, 14 May 2007 10:50:54 +1000 Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> akpm, please queue on top of "mm: swap prefetch improvements" > > --- > Failed radix_tree_insert wasn't being handled leaving stale kmem. > > The list should be iterated over in the reverse order when prefetching. > > Make the yield within kprefetchd stronger through the use of cond_resched. hm. > > - might_sleep(); > - if (!prefetch_suitable()) > + /* Yield to anything else running */ > + if (cond_resched() || !prefetch_suitable()) > goto out_unlocked; So if cond_resched() happened to schedule away, we terminate this swap-tricking attempt. It's not possible to determine the reasons for this from the code or from the changelog (==bad). How come? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
