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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/13] misc fixes
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 12:11:24 +0200
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On Monday 29 July 2002 22:00, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Anton did some testing on a 4-way PPC.  Similar results, I think.
> As an experiment he added a spinlock to the page structure and used
> that instead of the PG_chainlock flag.  It helped a lot.  He thinks
> that is because their spin_unlock() is not buslocked (like ia32).

So what happened when you tried that on your machine?

-- 
Daniel
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