Hi Willy,

On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:42:42 -0700 Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 08:36:44PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > We should probably do some performance testing on this because the last
> > time we tried the impact was quite noticeable.  You should ping Tridge as
> > he has some good lock testing setups.  And he cares if we slow him down :-)
> 
> Last time I did this, I switched to a semaphore instead of a spinlock.
> That was what slowed us down.  I doubt we can see a performance loss
> with this patch since it's a 1-1 substitution of the BKL spinlock with a
> private spinlock.

You are right, sorry.  Memories fade :-(

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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