On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 09:45 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder what everyone thinks about getting the lockless pagecache patch > into -mm? This version uses Hugh's suggestion to avoid a smp_rmb and a load > and branch in the lockless lookup side, and avoids some atomic ops in the > reclaim path, and avoids using a page flag! The coolest thing about it is > that it speeds up single-threaded pagecache lookups... > > Patches are against latest git for RFC. Full set Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra