[ltt-dev] [PATCH] Fix dirty page accounting in redirty_page_for_writepage()

Ingo Molnar mingo at elte.hu
Thu Apr 30 09:38:59 EDT 2009


* Christoph Lameter <cl at linux.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> 
> > to have a good look at the memory accounting code. We could 
> > probably benefit of Christoph Lameter's cpu ops (using segment 
> > registers to address per-cpu variables with atomic inc/dec) in 
> > there. Or at least removing interrupt disabling by using preempt 
> > disable and local_t variables for the per-cpu counters could 
> > bring some benefit.
> 
> Guess we are ready for atomic per cpu ops now that the new per cpu 
> allocator is in? Segment register issues with the PDA are also 
> solved right?

it's all done, implemented and upstream already. You are a bit late 
to the party ;-)

	Ingo




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