Re: [PATCH] Radix-tree pagecache for 2.5

Momchil Velikov (velco@fadata.bg)
01 Feb 2002 11:13:08 +0200


>>>>> "David" == David S Miller <davem@redhat.com> writes:

David> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
David> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:29:53 +0100 (CET)

David> using read-write locks does not solve the scalability problem: the problem
David> is the bouncing of the spinlock cacheline from CPU to CPU.

David> I so much wish more people understood this :(

Amen. From now on I'll have it on an yellow sticker on my display ;)

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