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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Subject: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 01 of 12] Core of mmu notifiers
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 17:00:15 +0200
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 06:03:40PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Christoph if you've interest in evolving anon-vma-sem and i_mmap_sem
> yourself in this direction, you're very welcome to go ahead while I

In case you didn't notice this already, for a further explanation of
why semaphores runs slower for small critical sections and why the
conversion from spinlock to rwsem should happen under a config option,
see the "AIM7 40% regression with 2.6.26-rc1" thread.