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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:35:46 +0100 From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de> To: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com> Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org> Subject: Re: [patch] mm: NUMA replicated pagecache On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 06:29:29PM -0500, Lee Schermerhorn wrote: > > I've attached another patch that closes one race and fixes a context > problem [irq/preemption state] in __unreplicate_page_range(). This > makes the locking even uglier :-(. > > I get further with this patch. Boot all the way up and can run fine > with page replication. However, I still get a NULL pcd in > find_get_page_readonly() when attempting a highly parallel kernel build > [16cpu/4node numa platform]. I'm still trying to track that down. OK, before you get further with your testing, I have done a rework. Sorry you had to wade through that last lot of uncommented spaghetti. This upcoming version should actually be a reasonable base to do testing and development on. > Question about locking: looks like the pcache_descriptor members are > protected by the tree_lock of the mapping, right? Yes. I figured that this would be cleanest and simplest for now. This locking model is retained in the rework. Nick - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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