On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:09:00AM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > There are 3 main parts to dcache scaling. This one primarily adds new locks > to take over dcache_lock, and some pre/post prep and streamlining patches. > > The second implements fine grained locking, and is rather trivial after > part 1. > > The third implements rcu-walk. rcu-walk depends on the first part, because it > relies on using d_lock to protect the state of the dentry (when converting from > rcu-walk to refcounted walk). Without the fine grained locing, we'd need to use > dcache_lock for that, which would be a step backwards to put into path walking > again. > > Comments? Do you have a git tree somewhere with this series in it? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
