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Message-ID: <20091106174439.GB819@basil.fritz.box>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:44:39 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, npiggin@...e.de,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
"hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk" <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Subject: [RFC MM] mmap_sem scaling: Use mutex and percpu
counter instead
On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 12:08:54PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > Yes but all the major calls still take mmap_sem, which is not ranged.
>
> But exactly that issue is addressed by this patch!
Major calls = mmap, brk, etc.
Only for page faults, not for anything that takes it for write.
Anyways the better reader lock is a step in the right direction, but
I have my doubts it's a good idea to make write really slow here.
-Andi
--
ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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