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Subject: Re: Locking comment on shrink_caches()
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   From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
   Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:24:21 -0300 (BRST)
   
   Or were you measuring loads which are mostly read-only ?

When Kanoj Sarcar was back at SGI testing 32 processor Origin
MIPS systems, pagecache_lock was at the top.

Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com