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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2008-07-25 22:45:31 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-26 15:00:06 -0400
commita60637c85893e7191faaafa6a72e197c24386727 (patch)
treefa3ec63f505e64d3b4a2be4efd9a5314ab5f6234 /lib/idr.c
parente286781d5f2e9c846e012a39653a166e9d31777d (diff)
mm: lockless pagecache
Combine page_cache_get_speculative with lockless radix tree lookups to introduce lockless page cache lookups (ie. no mapping->tree_lock on the read-side). The only atomicity changes this introduces is that the gang pagecache lookup functions now behave as if they are implemented with multiple find_get_page calls, rather than operating on a snapshot of the pages. In practice, this atomicity guarantee is not used anyway, and it is to replace individual lookups, so these semantics are natural. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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