Re: [PATCH] Radix-tree pagecache for 2.5
David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Fri, 01 Feb 2002 01:07:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:29:53 +0100 (CET)
using read-write locks does not solve the scalability problem: the problem
is the bouncing of the spinlock cacheline from CPU to CPU.
I so much wish more people understood this :(
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