Re: [PATCH] Prezeroing V8 + free_hot_zeroed_page + free_cold_zeroed page

From: Jason Uhlenkott
Date: Thu Mar 17 2005 - 21:09:15 EST


On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 05:36:50PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> + while (avenrun[0] >= ((unsigned long)sysctl_scrub_load << FSHIFT)) {
> + set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> + schedule_timeout(30*HZ);
> + }

This should probably be TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE. It'll never actually get
interrupted either way since kernel threads block all signals, but
sleeping uninterruptibly contributes to the load average.
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