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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:11:16 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
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Subject: Re: High lock spin time for zone->lru_lock under extreme conditions
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:00:39 -0800
Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> wrote:

> But is
> lru_lock an issue is another question.

I doubt it, although there might be changes we can make in there to
work around it.

<mentions PAGEVEC_SIZE again>
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