On 01/24/2014 11:09 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote: > I think the ext4 block groups are locked with the blockgroup_lock that has about the same number of locks as the number of cores, with a max of 128, IIRC. See blockgroup_lock.h. > > While there is some chance of contention, it is also unlikely that all of the cores are locking this area at the same time. > > Cheers, Andreas > -- 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
