Re: [RESEND v2 PATCH 1/2] aio, memory-hotplug: Fix confliction when migrating and accessing ring pages.

[Tang Chen]

On 03/14/2014 11:14 PM, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
......
> > What about the following patch? It adds additional reference to protect the page
> > avoid being freed when we reading it.
> > ps.It is applied on linux-next(3-13).
>
> I think that's even worse than the spinlock approach since we'll end up
> bouncing around the struct page's cacheline in addition to spinlock we're
> going to end up taking anyways.

Hi Benjamin,

I'm sorry, I don't quite understand the cacheline problem you mentioned 
above.
Would you please explain more ?

Thanks.

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