Thread (72 messages) 72 messages, 13 authors, 2002-07-13

Re: vm lock contention reduction

From: William Lee Irwin III <hidden>
Date: 2002-07-08 00:38:27

On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 07:50:41PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
Any time you have one of these pages in use, the process gets
pinned onto the current CPU. If we run out of per-cpu kmaps,
just fall back to traditional kmap().
This is not particularly difficult, it only requires a depth counter
and a saved cpumask for when it becomes unpinned again.


Cheers,
Bill
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