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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:31:19 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: npiggin@suse.de
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [patch 2/5] fs: improve scalability of bdi writeback work
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On Wed, Sep 16 2009, npiggin@suse.de wrote:
> If you're going to do an atomic RMW on each list entry, there's not much
> point in all the RCU complexities of the list walking. This is only going
> to help the multi-thread case I guess, but it doesn't hurt to do now.

Thanks Nick, good optimization.

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Jens Axboe