On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 02:13:56PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > In short: unless a gp elapses between _exit() and _enter(), the next > _enter() does nothing and avoids synchronize_sched(). That does however make the entire scheme entirely writer biased; increasing the need for the waitcount thing I have. Otherwise we'll starve pending readers. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>