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SubjectRe: [PATCH 17/18] fs: icache remove inode_lock
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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