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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Nate Custer <nate@cpanel.net>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFT PATCH] blkio: alloc per cpu data from worker thread context( Re: kvm deadlock)
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:49:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EF0844A.4090600@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111219182717.GC7175@redhat.com>

On 2011-12-19 19:27, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> I think reverting the previous series is not going to be simple either. It
> had 13 patches.
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/19/560
> 
> By making stats per cpu, I was able to reduce contention on request
> queue lock. Now we shall have to bring the lock back. 

That's not going to happen, having that lock in there was a disaster for
small IO on fast devices. It's essentially the limiting factor on
benchmark runs on the RHEL kernels that have it included and enabled...


-- 
Jens Axboe


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-20 12:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-05 22:48 kvm deadlock Nate Custer
2011-12-14 12:25 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-12-14 13:43   ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-14 14:00     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-12-14 14:02       ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-14 14:06         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-12-14 14:17           ` Nate Custer
2011-12-14 14:20             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-12-14 14:28             ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-14 14:27           ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-14 16:03     ` Jens Axboe
2011-12-14 17:03       ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-14 17:09         ` Jens Axboe
2011-12-14 17:22           ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-14 18:16             ` Tejun Heo
2011-12-14 18:41               ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-14 23:06                 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-15 19:47       ` [RFT PATCH] blkio: alloc per cpu data from worker thread context( Re: kvm deadlock) Vivek Goyal
     [not found]         ` <E73DB38E-AFC5-445D-9E76-DE599B36A814@cpanel.net>
2011-12-16 20:29           ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-18 21:25             ` Nate Custer
2011-12-19 13:40               ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-19 17:27               ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-19 17:35                 ` Tejun Heo
2011-12-19 18:27                   ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-19 22:56                     ` Tejun Heo
2011-12-20 14:50                       ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-20 20:45                         ` Tejun Heo
2011-12-20 12:49                     ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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2011-12-16 18:47 Nate Custer

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