Re: [PATCH 00/14] Concurrent Page Cache

[Christoph Lameter]

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> With Nick leading the way to getting rid of the read side of the tree_lock,
> this work continues by breaking the write side of said lock.

Could we get the read side in separately from the write side? I think I 
get the read side but the write side still looks scary to me and 
introduces new ways of locking. Ladder locking?
 
> Aside from breaking MTD this version of the concurrent page cache seems
> rock solid on my dual core x86_64 box.

What exactly is the MTD doing and how does it break?
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