Re: Locking comment on shrink_caches()

[David S. Miller]

   From: Marcelo Tosatti <[e-mail]>
   Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:02:29 -0300 (BRT)
   
   > It is known that pagecache_lock is the biggest scalability issue on
   > large SMP systems, and thus the page cache locking patches Ingo and
   > myself did.
   
   Btw, is that one going into 2.5 for sure? (the per-address-space lock). 
   
Well, there are two things happing in that patch.  Per-hash chain
locks for the page cache itself, and the lock added to the address
space for that page list.

Linus has indicated it will go into 2.5.x, yes.

Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
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