Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 02/20] make the inode i_mmap_lock a reader/writer lock | From | Lee Schermerhorn <> | Date | Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:53:38 -0500 |
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On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 11:31 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:52:09 -0500 > Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> wrote: > > > I keep these patches up to date for testing. I don't have conclusive > > evidence whether they alleviate or exacerbate the problem nor by how > > much. > > When the queued locking from Ingo's x86 tree hits mainline, > I suspect that spinlocks may end up behaving a lot nicer.
That would be worth testing with our problematic workloads...
> > Should I drop the rwlock patches from my tree for now and > focus on just the page reclaim stuff?
That's fine with me. They're out there is anyone is interested. I'll keep them up to date in my tree [and hope they don't conflict with split lru and noreclaim patches too much] for occasional testing.
Lee
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