From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:43:50 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Reply-To: "Martin J. Bligh" Subject: Re: [RFT][PATCH 0/2] pagefault scalability alternative Message-ID: <198120000.1124815430@flay> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter , Hugh Dickins Cc: Nick Piggin , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: >> > The basic idea is to have a spinlock per page table entry it seems. >> A spinlock per page table, not a spinlock per page table entry. > > Thats a spinlock per pmd? Calling it per page table is a bit confusing > since page table may refer to the whole tree. Could you develop > a clearer way of referring to these locks that is not page_table_lock or > ptl? Isn't that per pagetable page? Though maybe that makes less sense with large pages. M. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org