On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > The quicklists collect pages while we gather pages for TLB flushing. > These pages must be kept until the actual TLB flush has occurred. The > optimization of releasing off node pages early is therefore not valid. That should be the "mmu_gather" structure, not the quicklists. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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