From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove l_flushsema
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:58:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080430105832.GA20442@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080430104125.GM108924158@sgi.com>
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 08:41:25PM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> The only thing that I'm concerned about here is that this will
> substantially increase the time the l_icloglock is held. This is
> a severely contended lock on large cpu count machines and putting
> the wakeup inside this lock will increase the hold time.
>
> I guess I can address this by adding a new lock for the waitqueue
> in a separate patch set.
waitqueues are loked internally and don't need synchronization. With
a little bit of re-arranging the code the wake_up could probably be
moved out of the critical section.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-30 10:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-30 9:05 [PATCH] Remove l_flushsema Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-30 10:24 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-30 10:41 ` David Chinner
2008-04-30 10:58 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-04-30 11:11 ` David Chinner
2008-04-30 11:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-30 12:14 ` David Chinner
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