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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] concurrent inode allocation for ext2 against 2.5.64
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At some point in the past, Alex Tomas wrote:
>>  struct ext2_bg_info {
>>  	u8 debts;
>>  	spinlock_t balloc_lock;
>> +	spinlock_t ialloc_lock;
>>  	unsigned int reserved;
>>  } ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;

On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 01:51:58PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> hm, I wonder if this should be in a separate cacheline.  We may as well use a
> single lock if they're this close together.  Bill, can you test that
> sometime?

Benching now.


-- wli
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