Re: [patch 02/20] make the inode i_mmap_lock a reader/writer lock

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Wed Dec 19 2007 - 11:32:20 EST


On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:52:09 -0500
Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@xxxxxx> wrote:

> I keep these patches up to date for testing. I don't have conclusive
> evidence whether they alleviate or exacerbate the problem nor by how
> much.

When the queued locking from Ingo's x86 tree hits mainline,
I suspect that spinlocks may end up behaving a lot nicer.

Should I drop the rwlock patches from my tree for now and
focus on just the page reclaim stuff?

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