From: Manfred Spraul <manfreds@colorfullife.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm+eric@ccr.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHES]
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 19:20:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37498A69.FF40CFE3@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990523171206.21583A-100000@chiara.csoma.elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> on my box the page cache is already completely parallel on SMP,
> we drop the kernel lock on entry into page-cache routines and
> re-lock it only if we call filesystem-specific code or
> buffer-cache code.
How have you called the 'release_kernel_lock()' function?
I found several lengthy operations in the kernel which
should also release the kernel lock.
(the slowest: clear_page() when called by get_free_page(GFP_WAIT))
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Manfred
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prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-05-24 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-05-23 3:36 [PATCHES] Eric W. Biederman
1999-05-23 6:03 ` [PATCHES] Linus Torvalds
1999-05-23 14:54 ` [PATCHES] Eric W. Biederman
1999-05-23 15:49 ` [PATCHES] Ingo Molnar
1999-05-23 18:34 ` [PATCHES] Eric W. Biederman
1999-05-27 6:24 ` [PATCHES] Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-05-27 19:55 ` [PATCHES] Chuck Lever
1999-05-27 23:39 ` [PATCHES] Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-05-28 5:30 ` [PATCHES] Chuck Lever
1999-05-29 1:24 ` [PATCHES] Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-05-30 17:01 ` [PATCHES] Eric W. Biederman
1999-05-27 6:25 ` [PATCHES] Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-05-24 17:20 ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
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