Re: [PATCH] Scalable page cache

Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Mon, 26 Nov 2001 22:10:46 +0100 (CET)


On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> [...] And it should not be a problem that this is not race-free -
> missing to set the referenced bit is not a big failure.

(in the swapping code this race might be more lethal - so this
optimization would only be for the pagecache lookup only.)

Ingo

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