Re: [patch 2/2] x86,pat Convert memtype_lock into an rw_lock.

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Mar 17 2010 - 15:52:12 EST


Well, as you know :) tglx and I are on the road ... I'll try to get to it on Friday before I take off again.

"Suresh Siddha" <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 06:21 -0700, holt@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> Convert the memtype_lock from a spin_lock to an rw_lock. The first
>> version of my patch had this and it did improve performance for fault
>> in times. The atomic page flags patch (first in the series) improves
>> things much greater for ram pages. This patch is to help the other pages.
>>
>
>Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>X86 folks, can you please queue both these patches if you don't have
>any objections.
>
>thanks,
>suresh
>

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