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Andrew Morton authored
Several places in ext2 and ext3 are using filesystem-wide counters which use global locking. Mainly for the orlov allocator's heuristics. To solve the contention which this causes we can trade off accuracy against speed. This patch introduces a "percpu_counter" library type in which the counts are per-cpu and are periodically spilled into a global counter. Readers only read the global counter. These objects are *large*. On a 32 CPU P4, they are 4 kbytes. On a 4 way p3, 128 bytes.
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