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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 18:29:30 -0700
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Maneesh Soni <smaneesh@in.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Scalable FD Management using Read-Copy-Update
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> This patch provides a very good performance improvement in file 
> descriptor management for SMP linux kernel on a 4-way machine with the 
> expectation of even higher gains on higher end machines. The patch uses the 
> read-copy-update mechanism for Linux, published earlier at the sourceforge
> site under Linux Scalablity Effort project.
>        http://lse.sourceforge.net/locking/rclock.html.

Good stuff!

It would be interesting to try a filesystem benchmark such as dbench. On
a quad PPC fget was chewing up more than its fair share of cpu time.

Anton
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