Hi Willy, On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:16:15 -0700 Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx> wrote: > > It seems to work well enough, but I haven't run any serious stress > tests on it. This implementation uses one spinlock to protect both lock > lists and all the i_flock chains. It doesn't seem worth splitting up > the locking any further. We should probably do some performance testing on this because the last time we tried the impact was quite noticeable. You should ping Tridge as he has some good lock testing setups. And he cares if we slow him down :-) -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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