RE: [PATCH 2/2] hugetlb: synchronize alloc with page cache insert

[Chen, Kenneth W]

Adam Litke wrote on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 3:03 PM
> Nope, all the i_blocks stuff is gone.  I was just looking for a
> spin_lock for serializing all allocations for a particular hugeltbfs
> file and i_lock seemed to fit that bill.

I hope you are aware of the consequence of serializing page allocation:
It won't scale on large numa machine.  I don't have any issue per se at
the moment.  But in the past, SGI folks had screamed their heads off
for people doing something like that.

- Ken

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