Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:29:05 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: Locking comment on shrink_caches() | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:02:29 -0300 (BRT)
> It is known that pagecache_lock is the biggest scalability issue on > large SMP systems, and thus the page cache locking patches Ingo and > myself did. Btw, is that one going into 2.5 for sure? (the per-address-space lock). Well, there are two things happing in that patch. Per-hash chain locks for the page cache itself, and the lock added to the address space for that page list.
Linus has indicated it will go into 2.5.x, yes.
Franks a lot, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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