Robert Love wrote:
>> unless we
>> wanted to unconditionally drop the locks and let preempt just do the
>> right thing and also reduce SMP lock contention in the SMP case.
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 01:59:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> That's an interesting point. page_table_lock is one of those locks
> which is occasionally held for ages, and frequently held for a short
> time.
> I suspect that yes, voluntarily popping the lock during the long holdtimes
> will allow other CPUs to get on with stuff, and will provide efficiency
> increases. (It's a pretty lame way of doing that though).
> But I don't recall seeing nasty page_table_lock spintimes on
> anyone's lockmeter reports, so...
You will. There are just bigger fish to fry at the moment.
Cheers,
Bill
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