On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Had anyone actually seen lseek() vs. lseek() contention prior to the
> switch to ->i_sem-based variant? [...]
yes, i've seen this for years. (if you accept dbench overhead.)
and regarding the reintroduction of BKL, *please* do not just use a global
locks around such pieces of code, lock bouncing sucks on SMP, even if
there is no overhead.
Ingo
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