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* [patch] 2.6.17: lockless pagecache
@ 2006-06-25 16:39 ` Nick Piggin
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From: Nick Piggin @ 2006-06-25 16:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Updated lockless pagecache patchset available here:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/npiggin/patches/lockless/2.6.17/lockless.patch.gz

This should hopefully be my last release using the old (2.6.17)
indirect radix-tree, and I'll switch to the direct radix-tree in
future.

Changes since last release:
- lots of radix-tree cleanups and bugs fixed
- radix-tree tag lookups may be lockless
- added some missing memory barriers
- lockless pagevec_lookup_tag

The last item allowed me to remove the last few read-lockers,
which is nice.


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2006-06-25 16:39 [patch] 2.6.17: lockless pagecache Nick Piggin
2006-06-25 16:39 ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-25 17:26 ` Michal Piotrowski
2006-06-25 17:26   ` Michal Piotrowski
2006-06-26  6:01   ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-26  6:01     ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-26  9:29     ` Michal Piotrowski
2006-06-26  9:29       ` Michal Piotrowski
2006-06-25 17:55 ` Michal Piotrowski
2006-06-25 17:55   ` Michal Piotrowski
2006-06-26  6:04   ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-26  6:04     ` Nick Piggin

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