From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs-dev <xfs-dev@sgi.com>, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [patch, debug, 1/2] use atomic counters for ktrace buffer indexes
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:05:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080222040545.GA16993@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080218230010.GT155407@sgi.com>
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:00:10AM +1100, David Chinner wrote:
> ktrace_enter() is consuming vast amounts of CPU time
> due to the use of a single global lock for protecting
> buffer index increments. Change it to use per-buffer
> atomic counters - this reduces ktrace_enter() overhead
> during a trace intensive test on a 4p machine from 58%
> of all CPU time to 12% and halves test runtime.
This one is fine.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-22 4:05 UTC|newest]
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2008-02-18 23:00 [patch, debug, 1/2] use atomic counters for ktrace buffer indexes David Chinner
2008-02-22 4:05 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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