Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:19:09 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c |
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* Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 04:48:06PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > i'm sorry, but do you realize that files_lock is a global lock, > > triggered by /every single/ file close? > > Please check which thread you're in before you start such lengthy > rants.
my reply applies to the other thread too, you made a similar comment there too:
* Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:51:18PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > This patch-set breaks up the global file_list_lock which was found > > to be a severe contention point under basically any filesystem > > intensive workload. > > Benchmarks, please. Where exactly do you see contention for this?
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