linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/19] VM pageout scalability improvements

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Message-ID: <p73d4sh8s93.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
Date:	Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:34:00 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>
Cc:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@...com>,
	Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@...com>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/19] VM pageout scalability improvements

Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com> writes:

> We can easily [he says, glibly] reproduce the hang on the anon_vma lock

Is that a NUMA platform? On non x86? Perhaps you just need queued spinlocks?

-Andi
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