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Description: This patch decreases lock contention of multiple locks by avoiding cacheline bouncing of a global reference counter (d_count) on dentires already in the dcache while walking a path. See http://lse.sf.net/locking for some performance results. |
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| Developer: Hanna Linder |
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| Release Included: linux-2.5.11 |
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| Release | Notes | Date | Files |
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| 2.5.9 | Release Notes | 2002-04-23 | |
| File Notes | fast_walkA1-2.5.9.patch.gz |