On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 21:52:07 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> wrote:
> Here's a an almost totally untested patch to convert the anon vma lock to > an rwlock_t. Both the anon vma lock and i_mmap_lock used to be spinlocks. Peter turned them both into sleeping locks in this series: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/1/141 Later, Ingo turned the anon vma lock from an rwsem into a mutex (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/1/141) to permit a scalability fix (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/1/142). Let's convince ourselves that we won't be undoing things which will return to bite us? -- 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/
