On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 11:32 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Basically, to me, the whole "if a lock is so contended that we need to > play locking games, then we should look at why we *use* the lock, > rather than at the lock itself" is a religion.
Oh absolutely, I'm only mentioning the locking primitive side of mmap_sem, for which minor optimizations will _never_ solve the actual scalability issues. But yes, point taken. Thanks, Davidlohr -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/