Re: vfsmount lock issues on very large ppc64 box

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 10:50:27AM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> Looking closer, all of these calls are in pipefs and sockfs.
> Since we never mount either filesystem they never get a long term
> reference and we always end up in the very slow write brlock path
> that takes a lock for each online CPU.
> 
> Here is a quick hack that takes a long term reference on pipefs
> and sockfs which fixes the problem. Any thoughts on how we should
> fix it properly?

I know Tim and Andi have been looking into this ... I forget what their
fix was though.

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