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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: [patch 0/6] lockless pagecache
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 09:45:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071111084556.GC19816@wotan.suse.de> (raw)

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.

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             reply	other threads:[~2007-11-11  8:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-11  8:45 Nick Piggin [this message]
2007-11-11  8:47 ` [patch 1/6] mm: readahead scan lockless Nick Piggin
2007-11-11  8:49 ` [patch 2/6] radix-tree: gang_lookup_slot Nick Piggin
2007-11-11  8:50 ` [patch 3/6] mm: speculative get page Nick Piggin
2007-11-12 20:21   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-13  0:35     ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-13  0:37       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-13  0:51         ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-11  8:51 ` [patch 4/6] mm: lockless pagecache lookups Nick Piggin
2007-11-11  8:51 ` [patch 5/6] mm: spinlock tree_lock Nick Piggin
2007-11-11  8:52 ` [patch 6/6] mm: speculative refcount debug Nick Piggin
2007-11-17  9:48 ` [patch 0/6] lockless pagecache Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-17 20:16 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-11-19 22:58   ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-09 15:45 ` Peter Zijlstra

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