On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Yesterday, Ingo said:
>
> > i think one example *could* be to turn inode->i_sem into a combi-lock. Eg.
> > generic_file_llseek() could use the spin variant.
> >
> > this is a real performance problem, i've seen scheduling storms in
> > dbench-type runs due to llseek taking the inode semaphore.
... so just make it a spinlock instead.
The semaphore is overkill, as the only thing we're really protecting is
one 64-bit access against other updates.
Linus
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