Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 26 Sep 2001 00:03:47 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Locking comment on shrink_caches() |
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 05:00:55PM -0400, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > even worse. I'd rather try to use some of the rcu techniques for > page cache lookup, and per-page locking for page cache removal > which will lead to *cleaner* code as well as a much more scalable
I don't think rcu fits there, truncations and releasing must be extremely efficient too.
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