From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [BUG 3.0-rc1] oops during file removal, severe lock contention Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:46:24 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20110602011139.GP561@dastard> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Chinner Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110602011139.GP561@dastard> (Dave Chinner's message of "Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:11:39 +1000") List-ID: Dave Chinner writes: > > Also, there is massive lock contention while running these workloads. > perf top shows this for the create after about 5m inodes have been > created: We saw pretty much the same thing in some simple tests on large systems (extent io tree locking and higher level b*tree locks are a problem) It is being looked at I believe. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only