Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sun Jan 28 2007 - 10:29:38 EST


On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 04:17:00PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> scalability. I did lock profiling on the -rt kernel, which exposes such
> things nicely. Half of the lock contention events during kernel compile
> were due to kmap(). (The system had 2 GB of RAM, so 40% lowmem, 60%
> highmem.)

Numbers please, and not on -rt but on mainline. Please show the profiles.

> ps. please fix your mailer to not emit Mail-Followup-To headers. In Mutt
> you can do this via "set followup_to=no" in your .muttrc.

I have told you last time that this is absolutely intentional and I won't
change it.
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