Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Feb 2002 22:27:14 +0100 (CET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] New locking primitive for 2.5 |
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On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Quite a few. Significant ones. pagemap_lru_lock and lru_list_lock > come to mind.
ugh. Are you sure we want to *sleep* with something like pagemap_lru_lock held? That pretty much brings all pagecache related operations to a grinding halt. I think complex spinlocked sections should be simplified rather.
Ingo
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