Re: 2.4.19-preX: What we really need: -AA patches finally in the tree

Martin J. Bligh (Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com)
Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:49:43 -0800


> Making the locking more scaleable wrt. the pagemap_lru_lock
> could be either a simple change or a rework of the way the
> VM does locking. I'm not sure which way to go...

If the simple change works, it would be cool to see that as
a first step (I sent you a simplistic patch, but I'm not at all sure
it's correct). Breaking up that lock might expose something
else that people could work on in the meantime ....

M.

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