Hi
I have ported Stephen patch from 2.2.8 to 2.4, but now I have
contention in the inode bitmaps. Can I use the same trick
there that he used in the block bitmap???
Later, Juan.
diff -urN --exclude-from=/home/lfcia/quintela/work/kernel/exclude
base/fs/ext2/balloc.c
Hi
This patch is against test3-pre2.
It gives here good performance in the first run, and very bad
in the following ones of dbench 48. I am hitting here problems with
the locking scheme. I get a lot of contention in __wait_on_supper.
Almost all the dbench processes are waiting in:
Hi
I have been changing the write of buffers in the IO layer, and I
have found that the system gets a lot of contention in
__wait_on_super(). I am using test3-pre1 + kdb patch. I see also the
stalls/vmstat strange output without the kdb patch. I use it to be
able to see the back-traces.
"juan" == Juan J Quintela [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi Linus
I am resending to you this patch, it works here, and nobody has
complained about it the previous times that I post it here.
Later, Juan.
juan I have reworte the function truncate_inode_pages. The ve
Hi
I have just rewrite the function truncate_inode_pages, it did
busy waiting for the partial page, with the new rewrite, we do the
same locking for normal pages and the partial pages. This will help
in having less special cases.
Comments?
Later, Juan.
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