Re: 2.6.10-mm3 scaling problem with inotify

[Robert Love]

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 10:05 -0800, John Hawkes wrote:

> The patch shows a substantial 4x improvement for my specific workload (@64p),
> although I can still envision workloads that will stimulate high spinlock
> contention from spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock).  First things first -- let's get
> this fix into the -mm tree.  Thanks!

Glad it worked!

Does the spin_lock() show up in dnotify's code path?  It is getting
called, unconditionally, there, too.

	Robert Love


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