Hi Tejun, FYI, we noticed the below changes on git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup.git review-kill-tree_mutex commit a0f9ec1f181534694cb5bf40b7b56515b8cabef9 ("cgroup: use cgroup_kn_lock_live() in other cgroup kernfs methods") Test case : lkp-nex05/will-it-scale/writeseek 2074b6e38668e62 a0f9ec1f181534694cb5bf40b --------------- ------------------------- 1027273 ~ 0% -4.3% 982732 ~ 0% TOTAL will-it-scale.per_thread_ops 136 ~ 3% -43.1% 77 ~43% TOTAL proc-vmstat.nr_dirtied 0.51 ~ 3% +98.0% 1.01 ~ 4% TOTAL perf-profile.cpu-cycles.shmem_write_end.generic_perform_write.__generic_file_aio_write.generic_file_aio_write.do_sync_write 1078 ~ 9% -16.3% 903 ~11% TOTAL numa-meminfo.node0.Unevictable 269 ~ 9% -16.2% 225 ~11% TOTAL numa-vmstat.node0.nr_unevictable 1.64 ~ 1% -14.3% 1.41 ~ 4% TOTAL perf-profile.cpu-cycles.find_lock_entry.shmem_getpage_gfp.shmem_write_begin.generic_perform_write.__generic_file_aio_write 1.62 ~ 2% +14.1% 1.84 ~ 1% TOTAL perf-profile.cpu-cycles.lseek64 Legend: ~XX% - stddev percent [+-]XX% - change percent Thanks, Jet