linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] use percpu data for lg_prealloc

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Message-ID: <48A99E5D.2020309@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:07:57 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use percpu data for lg_prealloc_list

Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:47:40AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>> lg_prealloc_list seems to cry out for a per-cpu data structure; on a large
>>> smp system I think this should be better.  I've lightly tested this change
>>> on a 4-cpu system.  Comments welcome...
>> Any thoughts on this?  Does this seem to be the right way to go?
>>
> 
> Acked-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Thanks :)  I'll toss it in the patch queue.

-Eric
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