Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Aug 2001 01:35:52 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Align VM locks |
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On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 04:27:11PM -0400, Ben LaHaise wrote: > Here's the patch I sent a few days ago that provides a couple of generic > kmap_atomic entries for exactly this purpose and uses them for page cache > access. Not only does it avoid unneeded shootdowns, but it means that > spurious schedules won't happen under extreme loads.
if you want to take this route you don't need to define KM_USER*, just rename KM_BOUNCE_WRITE to KM_KERNEL and use it always.
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