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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 12:45:02 +0000
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: open-scale-2.6.2-A0
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Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Does this scalability improvement make any measured difference in any
> > conceivable application, or is it just making struct inode larger?
> 
> i've not added any new lock, i'm merely reusing the existing ->i_lock. 
> So there's no data or code bloat whatsoever.

Oh of course (duh!).

-- Jamie