On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 07:29 -0500, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> >>>>> "Arjan" == Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> writes:
>
> Arjan> In a micro-benchmark that stresses the pagefault path, the
> Arjan> down_read_trylock on the mmap_sem showed up quite high on the
> Arjan> profile. Turns out this lock is bouncing between cpus quite a
> Arjan> bit and thus is cache-cold a lot. This patch prefetches the
> Arjan> lock (for write) as early as possible (and before some other
> Arjan> somewhat expensive operations). With this patch, the
> Arjan> down_read_trylock basically fell out of the top of profile.
>
> Out of curiousity, how big was the box used for testing? It might be
> worth investigating if anything can be done to reduce the number of
> times that lock is taken in the first place.
>
> After all, what's a pain on a 4-way tends to be an utter nightmare on
> a 16-way ;(
most of it was done on a 2 way, but some tests were done on a 4-way.
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