> http://people.redhat.com/~mingo/smp-pagecache-patches/pagecache-2.4.2-H1
>
> this patch splits up the main scalability offender in non-RAM-limited
> dbench runs, which is pagecache_lock. The patch was designed and written
> by David Miller, and is being forward ported / maintained by me. (The new
> pagecache lock design is similar to TCP's hashed spinlocks, which proved
> to scale excellently.)
Thanks Ingo! Davem told me about this a while ago but I had forgotten
about it. I'll do some runs tomorrow including ones which dont fit in
RAM.
> (about lstat(): IMO lstat() should not call into the lowlevel FS code.)
Ooops, sorry I meant stats as in statistics :)
Anton
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