Re: [RFC][-mm] Memory controller add mm->owner

From: Paul Menage
Date: Wed Mar 26 2008 - 11:22:29 EST


On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 4:41 AM, Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hmmm.. the 99.9% of the time is just guess work (not measured, could be possibly
> true). I see and understand your code below. But before I try and implement
> something like that, I was wondering why zap_threads() does not have that
> heuristic. That should explain my inhibition.
>
> Can anyone elaborate on zap_threads further?
>

zap_threads() has to find *all* the other users, whereas in this case
we only have to find one other user.

Paul
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