Subject: Re: more locks..
To: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-smp
Date: 02/02/2003 15:49:20
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 11:44:28PM +0100, Paul Kranenburg wrote:

 > I've looked into making several kernel modules MP-safer. Attached is
 > a set of diffs for the buffer cache (mostly vfs_bio.c) for your
 > inspection.  With this patch, my 2-cpu machine can run the buffer cache
 > code concurrently, although I didn't push it very hard (just ffs & lfs
 > on a scsi disk).

This is cool, especially since we have to make the bottom-half MP-safe
before we can really attack the top-half.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>