Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Nick Piggin <> | | Subject | Re: [patch 02/20] make the inode i_mmap_lock a reader/writer lock | | Date | Thu, 3 Jan 2008 17:07:14 +1100 | |
On Thursday 03 January 2008 10:35, Mike Travis wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> Have you done anything more with allowing > 256 CPUS in this spinlock
> patch? We've been testing with 1k cpus and to verify with -mm kernel,
> we need to "unpatch" these spinlock changes.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
Hi Mike,
Actually I had it in my mind that 64 bit used single-byte locking like
i386, so I didn't think I'd caused a regression there.
I'll take a look at fixing that up now.
Thanks,
Nick
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