Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:01:50 +0100 (CET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] pagecache SMP-scalability patch [was: spinlock usage] |
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> ??? > <checking 2.2.0> > Nope, no calls into ext2/*. do_revalidate() seeing NULL ->i_revalidate > and doing nothing, lnamei() doing usual lookup, cp_old_stat() not touching > fs code at all...
the problem was that it was calling lock_kernel(), not the lowlevel fs i believe - this caused contention.
Ingo
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