From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.13] lockless pagecache 2/7
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 18:33:52 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0509021832080.18691@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4318C395.1080203@yahoo.com.au>
On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Thanks Christoph, I think this will be required to support 386.
> In the worst case, we could provide a fallback path and take
> ->tree_lock in pagecache lookups if there is no atomic_cmpxchg,
> however I would much prefer all architectures get an atomic_cmpxchg,
> and I think it should turn out to be a generally useful primitive.
>
> I may trim this down to only provide what is needed for atomic_cmpxchg
> if that is OK?
Do not hesitate to do whatever you need to the patch. I took what I
needed from you for this patch last year too.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-03 1:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-02 6:25 New lockless pagecache Nick Piggin
2005-09-02 6:28 ` [PATCH 2.6.13] lockless pagecache 1/7 Nick Piggin
2005-09-02 6:29 ` [PATCH 2.6.13] lockless pagecache 2/7 Nick Piggin
2005-09-02 6:30 ` [PATCH 2.6.13] lockless pagecache 3/7 Nick Piggin
2005-09-02 6:30 ` [PATCH 2.6.13] lockless pagecache 4/7 Nick Piggin
2005-09-02 6:31 ` [PATCH 2.6.13] lockless pagecache 5/7 Nick Piggin
2005-09-02 6:32 ` [PATCH 2.6.13] lockless pagecache 6/7 Nick Piggin
2005-09-02 6:32 ` [PATCH 2.6.13] lockless pagecache 7/7 Nick Piggin
2005-09-09 13:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-09-09 15:23 ` Nick Piggin
2005-09-09 5:36 ` [PATCH 2.6.13] lockless pagecache 5/7 Christoph Lameter
2005-09-09 6:22 ` Nick Piggin
2005-09-02 13:08 ` [PATCH 2.6.13] lockless pagecache 2/7 Alan Cox
2005-09-02 20:41 ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-02 21:12 ` David S. Miller, Andi Kleen
2005-09-02 21:43 ` Nick Piggin
2005-09-02 21:22 ` Nick Piggin
2005-09-02 21:31 ` David S. Miller, Nick Piggin
2005-09-02 21:47 ` Nick Piggin
2005-09-02 21:57 ` David S. Miller, Nick Piggin
2005-09-02 23:57 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-03 1:40 ` Nick Piggin
2005-09-03 17:31 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-04 1:01 ` Nick Piggin
2005-09-04 8:20 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-06 1:03 ` Nick Piggin
2005-09-02 18:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-09-02 21:26 ` Nick Piggin
2005-09-03 1:33 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2005-09-02 6:45 ` New lockless pagecache Nick Piggin
2005-09-15 19:50 ` Alok kataria
2005-09-16 3:12 ` Nick Piggin
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