Re: AIM7 40% regression with 2.6.26-rc1

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 6 May 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:36:06AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > Hmm. Wouldn't it be nicer to make the lock be a per-inode thing? Or is 
> > there some user that doesn't have the inode info, or does anything that 
> > might cross inode boundaries?
> 
> /proc/locks and deadlock detection both cross inode boundaries (and even
> filesystem boundaries).  The BKL-removal brigade tried this back in 2.4
> and the locking ended up scaling worse than just plonking a single
> spinlock around the whole thing.

Ok, no worries. Just as long as I know why it's a single lock. Looks ok to 
me, apart from the need for testing (and talking to NFS etc people).

		Linus
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