Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:05:04 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Locking comment on shrink_caches() |
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"David S. Miller" wrote: > > From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> > Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:24:21 -0300 (BRST) > > Or were you measuring loads which are mostly read-only ? > > When Kanoj Sarcar was back at SGI testing 32 processor Origin > MIPS systems, pagecache_lock was at the top.
But when I asked kumon to test it on his 8-way Xeon, page_cache_lock contention proved to be insignificant.
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