On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 11:31 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:52:09 -0500 > Lee Schermerhorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I keep these patches up to date for testing. I don't have conclusive > > evidence whether they alleviate or exacerbate the problem nor by how > > much. > > When the queued locking from Ingo's x86 tree hits mainline, > I suspect that spinlocks may end up behaving a lot nicer.
That would be worth testing with our problematic workloads... > > Should I drop the rwlock patches from my tree for now and > focus on just the page reclaim stuff? That's fine with me. They're out there is anyone is interested. I'll keep them up to date in my tree [and hope they don't conflict with split lru and noreclaim patches too much] for occasional testing. Lee -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
