Re: udevd is killing file write performance.

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Andrew Morton wrote:

Robin Holt <[email protected]> wrote:
Let me reiterate, I know _VERY_ little about filesystems.  Can the
dentry->d_lock be changed to a read/write lock?

Well, it could, but I suspect that won't help - the hold times in there
will be very short so the problem is more likely acquisition frequency.

However it's a bit strange that this function is the bottleneck.  If their
workload is doing large numbers of reads or writes from large numbers of
processes against the same file then they should be hitting heavy
contention on other locks, such as i_sem and/or tree_lock and/or lru_lock
and others.

Can you tell us more about the kernel-visible behaviour of this app?

I have also seen this problem, and it's hard to reproduce. What you will see is udev getting spawned multiple times as reported by top. I have found its related to intermittent failures of the hard drive and the hotpluger for some reason invoking udev multiple times in response to this. I saw it on a Compaq laptop right before my hard drive croaked, and it seems BIOS specific as well, since I have never seen
it or been able to reproduce it reliably.

Jeff

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