Re: Recent kernel "mount" slow

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 2012-11-27 06:57, Jeff Chua wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> So it's better to slow down mount.
>>
>> I am quite proud of the linux boot time pitting against other OS. Even
>> with 10 partitions. Linux can boot up in just a few seconds, but now
>> you're saying that we need to do this semaphore check at boot up. By
>> doing so, it's inducing additional 4 seconds during boot up.
> 
> By the way, I'm using a pretty fast SSD (Samsung PM830) and fast CPU
> (2.8GHz). I wonder if those on slower hard disk or slower CPU, what
> kind of degradation would this cause or just the same?

It'd likely be the same slow down time wise, but as a percentage it
would appear smaller on a slower disk.

Could you please test Mikulas' suggestion of changing
synchronize_sched() in include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h to
synchronize_sched_expedited()?

linux-next also has a re-write of the per-cpu rw sems, out of Andrews
tree. It would be a good data point it you could test that, too.

In any case, the slow down definitely isn't acceptable. Fixing an
obscure issue like block sizes changing while O_DIRECT is in flight
definitely does NOT warrant a mount slow down.

-- 
Jens Axboe