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From: Linus Torvalds on 25 May 2010 11:30


On Tue, 25 May 2010, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> So what happened to those patches that dropped mmap_sem during I/O?

They were horrible. The amount of retrying was just nasty. I don't think
it's going to ever be a viable approach.

Feel free to prove me wrong with clean patches, but I doubt you can.

Linus
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