Re: [PATCH] concurrent inode allocation for ext2 against 2.5.64

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Sat, 15 Mar 2003 14:06:18 -0800


At some point in the past, Alex Tomas wrote:
>> struct ext2_bg_info {
>> u8 debts;
>> spinlock_t balloc_lock;
>> + spinlock_t ialloc_lock;
>> unsigned int reserved;
>> } ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;

On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 01:51:58PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> hm, I wonder if this should be in a separate cacheline. We may as well use a
> single lock if they're this close together. Bill, can you test that
> sometime?

Benching now.

-- wli
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