From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Mark Hemment <markhe@veritas.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Align VM locks
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 20:26:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010816202606.B8726@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108161839180.3340-100000@alloc.wat.veritas.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108161839180.3340-100000@alloc.wat.veritas.com>; from markhe@veritas.com on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 06:41:08PM +0100
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 06:41:08PM +0100, Mark Hemment wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The patch below ensures the pagecache_lock and pagemap_lru_lock aren't
> sharing an L1 cacheline with anyone else - espically each other!
This is the right one:
ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.8aa1/00_cachelinealigned-in-smp-1
Alan also merged it in -ac IIRC.
BTW, for your other patch you sent a few hours ago you forgot to drop
the KMAP entry that is wasting NR_CPUS*PAGE_SIZE of virtual address
space:
ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.8aa1/00_create_bounces-sleeps-1
Andrea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-16 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-16 17:41 [PATCH] Align VM locks Mark Hemment
2001-08-16 18:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-08-16 18:44 ` Mark Hemment
2001-08-16 18:52 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-16 18:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-16 19:46 ` Mark Hemment
2001-08-16 20:27 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-16 23:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-16 19:14 ` Andrew Morton
2001-08-16 23:33 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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