From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
marcelo@conectiva.com.br, torvalds@transmeta.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Locking comment on shrink_caches()
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 00:03:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010926000347.H8350@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010925.131528.78383994.davem@redhat.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0109251601360.2193-100000@freak.distro.conectiva> <20010925.132905.32720330.davem@redhat.com> <20010925170055.B19494@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010925170055.B19494@redhat.com>; from bcrl@redhat.com on Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 05:00:55PM -0400
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 05:00:55PM -0400, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> even worse. I'd rather try to use some of the rcu techniques for
> page cache lookup, and per-page locking for page cache removal
> which will lead to *cleaner* code as well as a much more scalable
I don't think rcu fits there, truncations and releasing must be
extremely efficient too.
Andrea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-25 22:03 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
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 [this message]
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
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