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SubjectRe: Subject: [RFC MM] mmap_sem scaling: Use mutex and percpu counter instead
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On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Christoph Lameter
<cl@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Minchan Kim wrote:
>
>> How about change from 'mm_readers' to 'is_readers' to improve your
>> goal 'scalibility'?
>
> Good idea. Thanks. Next rev will use your suggestion.
>
> Any creative thoughts on what to do about the 1 millisecond wait period?
>

Hmm,
it would be importatn to prevent livelock for reader to hold lock
continuously before
hodling writer than 1 msec write ovhead.
First of all, After we solve it, second step is that optimize write
overhead, I think.

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim


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