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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Momchil Velikov <velco@fadata.bg>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Scalable page cache
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:34:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011126133450.C13955@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011126131641.A13955@redhat.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111262115261.17043-100000@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111262115261.17043-100000@localhost.localdomain>; from mingo@elte.hu on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:29:39PM +0100

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:29:39PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> this is a misunderstanding of the problem. The reason why the
> pagecache_lock is a performance problem is *not* contention, the reason is
> *not* the length of chains, or any other reason you listed. The problem is
> SMP cacheline invalidation costs, due to using the same cacheline from
> multiple CPUs. Thus the spreading out of locking gives good SMP cacheline
> usage properties.

Please reply to the rest of the message.  Perhaps that item is a 
misunderstanding, but the rest of it is applicable across the board.

		-ben

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-11-26 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-26 12:31 [PATCH] Scalable page cache Momchil Velikov
2001-11-26 17:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-11-26 17:23   ` Momchil Velikov
2001-11-26 18:16     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-11-26 18:42       ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-26 20:29       ` Ingo Molnar
2001-11-26 18:33         ` David S. Miller
2001-11-26 19:29           ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-26 19:35             ` David S. Miller
2001-11-26 18:34         ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2001-11-26 20:40       ` Ingo Molnar
2001-11-26 19:19         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-11-26 21:00         ` Ingo Molnar
2001-11-26 20:43       ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-26 19:49     ` Ingo Molnar
2001-11-26 18:08       ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-11-26 20:13         ` Ingo Molnar
2001-11-26 21:09     ` Ingo Molnar
2001-11-26 19:18       ` David S. Miller
2001-11-26 19:45         ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-26 19:57           ` David S. Miller
2001-11-26 20:03             ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-26 20:37             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-11-26 21:02               ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-26 22:23                 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-11-26 22:49                   ` Jeff Garzik
2001-11-26 23:06                     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-11-26 21:10       ` Ingo Molnar
2001-11-26 17:29   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-11-26 20:03     ` Ingo Molnar
2001-11-26 18:02   ` David S. Miller
2001-11-26 18:11     ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-27  8:07     ` benchmark results: " Anton Blanchard
2001-11-26 18:52   ` [PATCH] " Daniel Phillips

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