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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] mm: fixup changers of per cpu pageset's ->high and ->batch
On 04/06/2013 06:32 PM, Simon Jeons wrote:
> Hi Cody,
> On 04/06/2013 04:33 AM, Cody P Schafer wrote:
>> In one case while modifying the ->high and ->batch fields of per cpu
>> pagesets
>> we're unneededly using stop_machine() (patches 1 & 2), and in another
>> we don't have any
>> syncronization at all (patch 3).
>
> Do you mean stop_machine() is used for syncronization between each
> online cpu?
>

I mean that it looks like synchronization between cpus is unneeded
because of how per cpu pagesets are used, so stop_machine() (which does
provide syncro between all cpus) is unnecessarily "strong".



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