Re: [PATCH] release quicklist before free_page
From: Daniel Walker <hidden>
Date: 2007-07-23 18:38:45
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From: Daniel Walker <hidden>
Date: 2007-07-23 18:38:45
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On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 20:23 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
how about: "if you've got some time then please also add a few comments, because the code was quite non-obvious to me and I misunderstood it when I tried to fix it. Thanks."
Not exactly what I was thinking of .. More like, "LOCKING NOTE: This code uses the fact that get_cpu_var disables preemption to maintain cpu affinity during the call to free_page() otherwise it might free pages on another cpu." (btw, your comment above comes off very snide, which I don't appreciate. I haven't done anything that remotely warrants that.) Daniel