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From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc] optimise unlock_page
Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 21:08:09 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705082054500.18925@blonde.wat.veritas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070508114003.GB19294@wotan.suse.de>

On Tue, 8 May 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:

> This patch trades a page flag for a significant improvement in the unlock_page
> fastpath. Various problems in the previous version were spotted by Hugh and
> Ben (and fixed in this one).
> 
> Comments?

Seems there's still a bug there.  I get hangs on the page lock, on
i386 and on x86_64 and on powerpc: sometimes they unhang themselves
after a while (presume other activity does the wakeup).  Obvious even
while booting (Starting udevd).  Sorry, not had time to investigate.

Hugh

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-08 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20070508113709.GA19294@wotan.suse.de>
2007-05-08 11:40 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-08 20:08   ` Hugh Dickins [this message]
2007-05-08 21:30   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-08 22:41     ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-08 22:50       ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-09 19:33         ` Hugh Dickins
2007-05-09 21:21           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-10  3:37           ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-10 19:14             ` Hugh Dickins
2007-05-11  8:54               ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-11 13:15                 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-05-13  3:32                   ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-13  4:39                     ` Hugh Dickins
2007-05-13  6:52                       ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-16 17:54                         ` Hugh Dickins
2007-05-16 18:18                           ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-16 19:28                             ` Hugh Dickins
2007-05-16 19:47                               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-17  6:27                                 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-16 17:21                     ` Hugh Dickins
2007-05-16 17:38                       ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-08 12:13 ` David Howells
2007-05-08 22:35   ` Nick Piggin

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