Re: [PATCH] anobjrmap 9 priority mjb tree

[Martin J. Bligh]

> This patch is an attempt at reducing the contention on i_shared_sem
> by introducing a new semaphore i_mmap_sem. The i_shared_sem covers
> i_mmap_shared tree and i_mmap_nonlinear list now, whereas i_mmap_sem
> covers i_mmap tree. This may help to reduce the contention on
> i_shared_sem if a file is mapped both private and shared. Kernel
> compile time with and without this patch did not change much, though.
> 
> This patch is on top of 2.6.5-mjb1+anobjrmap9_prio. Compiled and
> tested.
> 
> Martin! Are you interested in testing SDET with this patch ?

Runs exactly the same as prio ... thanks for having a crack at it though.
I guess that sharing combination isn't that common ;-(

M.

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