Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:49:43 -0800 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.19-preX: What we really need: -AA patches finally in the tree |
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> Making the locking more scaleable wrt. the pagemap_lru_lock > could be either a simple change or a rework of the way the > VM does locking. I'm not sure which way to go...
If the simple change works, it would be cool to see that as a first step (I sent you a simplistic patch, but I'm not at all sure it's correct). Breaking up that lock might expose something else that people could work on in the meantime ....
M.
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