Re: Lockless page cache test results

[Nick Piggin]

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:

> > Hmm, what's more, find_get_pages_contig shouldn't result in any
> > fewer tree_lock acquires than the open coded thing there now
> > (for the densely populated pagecache case).
>
>
> How do you figure? The open coded one does a find_get_page() on each
> page in that range, so for x number of pages we'll grab and release
> ->tree_lock x times.

Yeah you're right. I had in mind that you were using
find_get_pages_contig in readahead, rather than in splice.

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