Re: [RFC][PATCH] make global bitlock waitqueues per-node

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Dec 20 2016 - 13:03:03 EST


On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'll go back and try to see why the page flag contention patch didn't
> get applied.

Ahh, a combination of warring patches by Nick and PeterZ, and worry
about the page flag bits.

Damn. I had mentally marked this whole issue as "solved". But the fact
that we know how to solve it doesn't mean it's done.

Linus