Re: open-scale-2.6.2-A0

[Jamie Lokier]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> i've attached an obvious scalability improvement for write()s. We in
> essence used a system-global lock for every open(WRITE) - argh!

I wonder if the "rip the second arsehole" is there for a reason.

Does this scalability improvement make any measured difference in any
conceivable application, or is it just making struct inode larger?

-- Jamie
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