On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 00:37 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 23:45 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 15:10 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote: > > > Please review. I have tested on fsx on SMP box. Lee, if you got time, > > > please try this patch. > > > > I have tested and this does fix the problem. I ran my tests and no ext3 > > code paths showed up on the latency tracer at all, it never went above > > 33 usecs. > > > Thanks, Lee. > > The patch survived on many fsx test over 20 hours on a 2cpu machine. > Tested the patch on the same machine with tiobench (1-64 threads), and > untar a kernel tree test, no regression there. > However I see about 5-7% throughput drop on dbench with 16 threads. It > probably due to the cpu cost that we have discussed. Hmm, I guess someone needs to test it on a bigger system. AFAICT this should improve SMP scalability quite a bit. Maybe that lock is rarely contended. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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