Re: Slab: Node rotor for freeing alien caches and remote per cpupages.

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Feb 23 2006 - 14:32:06 EST


Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The cache reaper currently tries to free all alien caches and all remote
> per cpu pages in each pass of cache_reap.

umm, why? We have a reap timer per cpu - why doesn't each CPU drain its
own stuff and its own node's stuff and leave the other nodes&cpus alone?
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