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DateWed, 16 Mar 2005 02:04:08 -0800
FromAndrew Morton <>
SubjectRe: [patch 0/3] j_state_lock, j_list_lock, remove-bitlocks
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
>  > There's a little lock ranking diagram in jbd.h which tells us that
>  > these locks nest inside j_list_lock and j_state_lock.  So I guess
>  > you'll need to turn those into semaphores.
> 
>  indeed. I did this (see the three followup patches, against BK-curr),
>  and it builds/boots/works just fine on an ext3 box. Do we want to try
>  this in -mm?

ooh, I'd rather not.  I spent an intense three days removing all the
sleeping locks from ext3 (and three months debugging the result).  Ended up
gaining 1000% on 16-way.

Putting them back in will really hurt the SMP performance.
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