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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] SGI Altix cross partition functionality (1st revision)
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 16:57:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040904175734.A16526@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040616163514.GB27891@sgi.com>

On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 05:55:16PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > hot and need to broken up.  So that is why you will find people that
> > believe that it is simpler and less complex to design in fine grain locks,
> > to avoid having to track down and fix scaling bugs.  
> 
> Have you not looked at the code or are you publically trying to make a fool
> of yourself?
> 
> The lock is taken during xfc_connect/disconnect which happen exactly at
> ifconfig up/down time.  Please explain me why ifconfig scalability matters
> to SGI.

And btw, as your trying to play mister smartass here:  if you removed
support for the second possible channel instead of keeping it as hook
for your propritary xpmem module we'd have only one lock anyway.  What
about just completely killing support for that second channel and we
don't need to dicuss this issue at all.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-04 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-16 16:35 [PATCH 2/4] SGI Altix cross partition functionality Dean Nelson
2004-06-16 17:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-16 20:22 ` Keith Owens
2004-07-29 18:36 ` Dean Nelson
2004-08-31 19:22 ` [PATCH 2/4] SGI Altix cross partition functionality (1st revision) Dean Nelson
2004-09-01 10:19 ` Robin Holt
2004-09-04 11:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-04 11:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-04 16:35 ` Russ Anderson
2004-09-04 16:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-04 16:57 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-09-05 11:45 ` Robin Holt
2004-12-20 18:45 ` Dean Nelson
2004-12-21 12:20 ` Dean Nelson
2005-01-05 11:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-05 11:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-24 18:00 [PATCH 0/4] SGI Altix cross partition functionality (1st Dean Nelson
2004-08-24 18:23 ` [PATCH 2/4] SGI Altix cross partition functionality (1st revision) Dean Nelson
2004-08-24 19:17   ` Christoph Hellwig

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