Re: [patch 2/5] fs: improve scalability of bdi writeback workqueues

[Jens Axboe]

On Wed, Sep 16 2009, npiggin@xxxxxxx wrote:
> If you're going to do an atomic RMW on each list entry, there's not much
> point in all the RCU complexities of the list walking. This is only going
> to help the multi-thread case I guess, but it doesn't hurt to do now.

Thanks Nick, good optimization.

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Jens Axboe

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