On Sat, Jun 21 2003, Lou Langholtz wrote:
> > b) you definitely don't have to use separate queue locks. The
> >thing will work fine with spinlock being shared and I doubt that there
> >will be any noticable extra contention.
> >
> Probably not noticeable no.
The approach you took is probably _worse_ than a single lock, since you
don't even cache align the locks. I'd say just keep the single nbd_lock
and use that in all queues, seperate locks are a questionable win but do
take up extra space.
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