The problem with a per_cpu biglock is that you may consume a lot of RAM for
big NR_CPUS. Count 32 KB per 'biglock' if NR_CPUS=1024
Does one Linux kernel run on system with 1024 cpus? I guess it must fry
spinlocks... (or even lockup due to spinlock livelocks)
Mikulas
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