Nick Piggin wrote:
Jens Axboe wrote:
Things look pretty bad for the lockless kernel though, Nick any idea
what is going on there? The splice change is pretty simple, see the top
three patches here:
Could just be the use of spin lock instead of read lock.
I don't think it would be hard to convert find_get_pages_contig
to be lockless.
Patched vanilla numbers look nicer, but I'm curious as to why
__do_page_cache was so bad before, if the file was in cache.
Presumably it should not more than double tree_lock acquisition...
it isn't getting called multiple times for each page, is it?
Hmm, what's more, find_get_pages_contig shouldn't result in any
fewer tree_lock acquires than the open coded thing there now
(for the densely populated pagecache case).
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