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From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
To: 'Adam Litke' <agl@us.ibm.com>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/2] hugetlb: synchronize alloc with page cache insert
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:46:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601112346.k0BNk5g02008@unix-os.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1137020606.9672.16.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Adam Litke wrote on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 3:03 PM
> Nope, all the i_blocks stuff is gone.  I was just looking for a
> spin_lock for serializing all allocations for a particular hugeltbfs
> file and i_lock seemed to fit that bill.

I hope you are aware of the consequence of serializing page allocation:
It won't scale on large numa machine.  I don't have any issue per se at
the moment.  But in the past, SGI folks had screamed their heads off
for people doing something like that.

- Ken

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-11 23:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-10 19:22 Hugetlb: Shared memory race Adam Litke
2006-01-10 19:44 ` William Lee Irwin III
2006-01-11 22:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] hugetlb: Delay page zeroing for faulted pages Adam Litke
2006-01-11 22:24   ` [PATCH 2/2] hugetlb: synchronize alloc with page cache insert Adam Litke
2006-01-11 22:52     ` William Lee Irwin III
2006-01-11 23:03       ` Adam Litke
2006-01-11 23:24         ` William Lee Irwin III
2006-01-11 23:46         ` Chen, Kenneth W [this message]
2006-01-12  0:40     ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-01-12  1:05       ` William Lee Irwin III
2006-01-12 17:26         ` Adam Litke
2006-01-12 19:07           ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-01-12 19:48             ` Adam Litke
2006-01-12 20:06               ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-01-11 22:42   ` [PATCH 1/2] hugetlb: Delay page zeroing for faulted pages William Lee Irwin III

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