Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 26 Sep 2001 00:59:03 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Locking comment on shrink_caches() |
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 03:03:28PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> > Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 00:01:02 +0200 > > IMHO if we would hold the pagecache lock all the time while shrinking > the cache, then we could kill the lru lock in first place. > > And actually in the pagecache locking patches, doing such a thing > would be impossible :-) since each page needs to grab a different
good further point too :), it would be an option only for mainline.
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