netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/6] fs: Scalability of sockets/pipes allocation/deallocation on SMP

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Message-ID: <20081129063816.GA869@infradead.org>
Date:	Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:38:17 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] fs: Scalability of sockets/pipes
	allocation/deallocation on SMP

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 07:47:56PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Wow, that's incredibly impressive! :-)
> 
> Yeah, we got a similar speedup on -rt by pushing those super-block files
> list into per-cpu lists and doing crazy locking on them.
> 
> Of course avoiding them all together, like done here is a nicer option
> but is sadly not a possibility for regular files (until hch gets around
> to removing the need for the list).

We should have finished this long ago, thanks for the reminder.

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