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Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 00:21:14 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: Strange load spikes on 2.4.19 kernel
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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   From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
   Date: 13 Oct 2002 09:24:32 +0200
   
   It depends on your file system.
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   Still in 2.4 the VFS takes the big kernel lock unnecessarily
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   That's fixed in 2.5.

All true.

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