From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: marcelo@conectiva.com.br
Cc: andrea@suse.de, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Locking comment on shrink_caches()
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:29:05 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010925.132905.32720330.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0109251601360.2193-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
In-Reply-To: <20010925.131528.78383994.davem@redhat.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0109251601360.2193-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:02:29 -0300 (BRT)
> It is known that pagecache_lock is the biggest scalability issue on
> large SMP systems, and thus the page cache locking patches Ingo and
> myself did.
Btw, is that one going into 2.5 for sure? (the per-address-space lock).
Well, there are two things happing in that patch. Per-hash chain
locks for the page cache itself, and the lock added to the address
space for that page list.
Linus has indicated it will go into 2.5.x, yes.
Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-25 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-25 17:49 Locking comment on shrink_caches() Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-25 19:57 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-25 18:40 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-25 20:15 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-25 19:02 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-25 20:29 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2001-09-25 21:00 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-09-25 21:55 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-25 22:16 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-09-25 22:28 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-26 16:40 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-26 17:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-26 17:40 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-26 17:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-26 18:01 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-09-26 18:01 ` Dave Jones
2001-09-26 20:20 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-09-26 20:24 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-09-26 17:43 ` Richard Gooch
2001-09-26 18:24 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-09-26 18:48 ` Richard Gooch
2001-09-26 18:58 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-09-26 17:45 ` Dave Jones
2001-09-26 17:50 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-26 17:59 ` Dave Jones
2001-09-26 18:07 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-26 18:09 ` Padraig Brady
2001-09-26 18:22 ` Dave Jones
2001-09-26 18:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-26 18:40 ` Dave Jones
2001-09-26 19:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-27 12:22 ` CPU frequency shifting "problems" Padraig Brady
2001-09-27 12:44 ` Dave Jones
2001-09-27 23:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-28 0:55 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-28 2:12 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2001-09-28 8:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-09-28 16:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-28 20:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-09-28 22:24 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-09-26 19:04 ` Locking comment on shrink_caches() George Greer
2001-09-26 18:59 ` George Greer
2001-09-26 23:26 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-27 12:10 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-27 15:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-27 17:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-09-27 19:41 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-27 22:59 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-25 22:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-25 20:24 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-25 20:28 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-25 21:05 ` Andrew Morton
2001-09-25 21:48 ` David S. Miller
[not found] ` <200109252215.f8PMFDa02034@eng2.beaverton.ibm.com>
2001-09-25 22:26 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-26 17:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-09-25 22:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-25 22:03 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-25 22:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-25 20:40 ` Josh MacDonald
2001-09-25 19:25 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-25 21:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-09-26 5:04 Dipankar Sarma
2001-09-26 5:31 ` Andrew Morton
2001-09-26 6:57 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-26 7:08 ` Dipankar Sarma
2001-09-26 16:52 ` John Hawkes
[not found] <fa.cbgmt3v.192gc8r@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.cd0mtbv.1aigc0v@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <i1m66a5o1zc.fsf@verden.pvv.ntnu.no>
2001-09-27 1:34 ` Vojtech Pavlik
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20010925.132905.32720330.davem@redhat.com \
--to=davem@redhat.com \
--cc=andrea@suse.de \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=marcelo@conectiva.com.br \
--cc=torvalds@transmeta.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox