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SubjectRe: smp overhead, and rwlocks considered harmful
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> wrote:
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> > One thing is noteworthy: ia32's read_unlock() is buslocked, whereas
> > spin_unlock() is not.
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> Dont forget bitops/atomics used as spinlocks like the rmap pte chain lock.
>

Did you end up deciding it was worthwhile putting a spinlock in the ppc64
pageframe for that? Or hashing for it.

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