Re: 2.2.0-pre1 worse than 2.1.132

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Tue, 29 Dec 1998 13:58:23 -0800 (PST)

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On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
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> And, is there some reason to left the check_pgt_cache() in the idle task
> and not in vmscan.c as with kmem_cache_reap()?

check_pgt_cache() has to be a per-CPU thing. Running it in vmscan doesn't
allow it to necessarily run on all the CPUs it has to run on.

Linus

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