Re: [patch 1/13] misc fixes

From: Daniel Phillips (phillips@arcor.de)
Date: Tue Jul 30 2002 - 05:11:24 EST

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On Monday 29 July 2002 22:00, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Anton did some testing on a 4-way PPC. Similar results, I think.
> As an experiment he added a spinlock to the page structure and used
> that instead of the PG_chainlock flag. It helped a lot. He thinks
> that is because their spin_unlock() is not buslocked (like ia32).

So what happened when you tried that on your machine?

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Daniel
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