Re: [PATCH 2.6.13] lockless pagecache 7/7

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Sep 09 2005 - 08:01:04 EST


For Itanium (and I guess also for ppc64 and sparch64) the performance of
write_lock/unlock is the same as spin_lock/unlock. There is at least
one case where concurrent reads would be allowed without this patch.

Maybe keep the rwlock_t there?
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