Hi,
The patch below ensures the pagecache_lock and pagemap_lru_lock aren't
sharing an L1 cacheline with anyone else - espically each other!
Mark
diff -ur -X dontdiff linux-2.4.9-pre4/mm/filemap.c L1-2.4.9-pre4/mm/filemap.c
--- linux-2.4.9-pre4/mm/filemap.c Thu Aug 16 15:57:51 2001
+++ L1-2.4.9-pre4/mm/filemap.c Thu Aug 16 18:28:24 2001
@@ -45,12 +45,12 @@
unsigned int page_hash_bits;
struct page **page_hash_table;
-spinlock_t pagecache_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
+spinlock_t __cacheline_aligned pagecache_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
/*
* NOTE: to avoid deadlocking you must never acquire the pagecache_lock with
* the pagemap_lru_lock held.
*/
-spinlock_t pagemap_lru_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
+spinlock_t __cacheline_aligned pagemap_lru_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
#define CLUSTER_PAGES (1 << page_cluster)
#define CLUSTER_OFFSET(x) (((x) >> page_cluster) << page_cluster)
-
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