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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Ying Huang <ying.huang@intel.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm, vmscan: Batch removal of mappings under a single lock during reclaim
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 11:33:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFwoEMOweMaOjFk9+H04mFXnwGk7y6n86T2ZbF_CZOkKEg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160916132506.GB5035@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 6:25 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> So, once upon a time, in a galaxy far away,..  I did a concurrent
> pagecache patch set that replaced the tree_lock with a per page bit-
> spinlock and fine grained locking in the radix tree.

I'd love to see the patch for that. I'd be a bit worried about extra
locking in the trivial cases (ie multi-level locking when we now take
just the single mapping lock), but if there is some smart reason why
that doesn't happen, then..

                Linus

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-16 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-09  9:59 [RFC PATCH 0/4] Reduce tree_lock contention during swap and reclaim of a single file v1 Mel Gorman
2016-09-09  9:59 ` [PATCH 1/4] mm, vmscan: Batch removal of mappings under a single lock during reclaim Mel Gorman
2016-09-16 13:25   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-09-16 14:07     ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-09-16 18:33     ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2016-09-17  1:36       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-09-09  9:59 ` [PATCH 2/4] block, brd: Treat storage as non-rotational Mel Gorman
2016-09-09  9:59 ` [PATCH 3/4] mm, vmscan: Stall kswapd if contending on tree_lock Mel Gorman
2016-09-09  9:59 ` [PATCH 4/4] mm, vmscan: Potentially stall direct reclaimers on tree_lock contention Mel Gorman
2016-09-09 15:31 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] Reduce tree_lock contention during swap and reclaim of a single file v1 Linus Torvalds
2016-09-09 16:19   ` Mel Gorman
2016-09-09 18:16     ` Huang, Ying

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