Re: [PATCH] Prezeroing V8 + free_hot_zeroed_page + free_cold_zeroedpage

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Jason Uhlenkott wrote:

> 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.

Correct. .... I just do not seem to be able to get this right.

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