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Concurrent Page Cache

From:  Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To:  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject:  [PATCH 00/14] Concurrent Page Cache
Date:  Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:13:43 +0100
Cc:  Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

With Nick leading the way to getting rid of the read side of the tree_lock,
this work continues by breaking the write side of said lock.

Aside from breaking MTD this version of the concurrent page cache seems
rock solid on my dual core x86_64 box.



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