From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:26:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:26:19 -0400 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:20488 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:25:59 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 20:26:06 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Mark Hemment Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Align VM locks Message-ID: <20010816202606.B8726@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from markhe@veritas.com on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 06:41:08PM +0100 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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