Re: [patch 4/4 v3]swap: make cluster allocation per-cpu

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On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:09:01 -0700 (PDT) Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> But I'm not all that keen on this one.  Partly because I suspect that
> this per-cpu'ing won't in the end be the right approach

That was my reaction.  The CPU isn't the logical thing upon which to
key the clustering.  It mostly-works, because of the way in which the
kernel operates but it's a bit of a flukey hack.  A more logical thing
around which to subdivide the clustering is the mm_struct.


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