Re: Locking comment on shrink_caches()

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 03:03:28PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Andrea Arcangeli <[e-mail]>
>    Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 00:01:02 +0200
>    
>    IMHO if we would hold the pagecache lock all the time while shrinking
>    the cache, then we could kill the lru lock in first place.
> 
> And actually in the pagecache locking patches, doing such a thing
> would be impossible :-) since each page needs to grab a different

good further point too :), it would be an option only for mainline.

Andrea