Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:25:52 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 17/18] fs: icache remove inode_lock |
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On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 06:20:58PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > Unfortunate timing that everybody is suddenly interested in the > scalability work :)
People have been interested for a long time. It's just that we finally made forward progress to get parts of it shape for merging, which should have been done long time ago.
> I might need a little more time than 2.6.37! But I'll try my best. > I don't think the patchset has suddenly become vastly more urgent > in the past month, so I think my approach of having it get a lot > of testing and go in Al's vfs tree for a while is best.
It's always been quite urgent. Both inode_lock and dcache_lock contention have been hurting us for a while.
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