From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.intermedia.net ([207.5.44.129]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA24032 for ; Mon, 24 May 1999 13:26:29 -0400 Received: from [134.96.127.159] by mail.colorfullife.com (NTMail 3.03.0017/1.abcr) with ESMTP id la382211 for ; Mon, 24 May 1999 10:26:43 -0700 Message-ID: <37498A69.FF40CFE3@colorfullife.com> Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 19:20:41 +0200 From: Manfred Spraul Reply-To: masp0008@stud.uni-sb.de MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCHES] References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Ingo Molnar Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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)) -- Manfred -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm my@address' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/