On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Quite a few. Significant ones. pagemap_lru_lock and lru_list_lock
> come to mind.
ugh. Are you sure we want to *sleep* with something like pagemap_lru_lock
held? That pretty much brings all pagecache related operations to a
grinding halt. I think complex spinlocked sections should be simplified
rather.
Ingo
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