You'll also find that reiserfs scales much better on machines with many
processors with this patch in use. It still is very coarse grained
compared to V4, but the bitmap scanning was consuming so much CPU while
locking out other processors that it was a performance problem for one
person measuring our performance on 8-way machines.
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