Re: What was the problem with quicklists and x86-64?

[Christoph Lameter]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> > No this may mean that the problem does not exist on powerpc since it 
> > seems to be okay to free pages before all processors have flushed the 
> > TLBs? Or are you deferrring the freeing of the pages via RCU?
> 
> I'm deferring the freeing with RCU.

The deferral works on a page level or for the whole list of pages that 
have been gathered?

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