From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] adaptive spinning mutexes Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:03:57 +0100 Message-ID: <20090115220357.GB4314@elte.hu> References: <20090114183319.GA18630@elte.hu> <20090114184746.GA21334@elte.hu> <20090114192811.GA19691@elte.hu> <20090115174440.GF29283@parisc-linux.org> <20090115180844.GL22472@elte.hu> <1232047618.8269.93.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> <1232053458.8269.139.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linus Torvalds , Matthew Wilcox , Peter Zijlstra , "Paul E. McKenney" , Gregory Haskins , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel , linux-btrfs , Thomas Gleixner , Nick Piggin , Peter Morreale , Sven Dietrich , Dmitry Adamushko , Johannes Weiner To: Chris Mason Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1232053458.8269.139.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> List-ID: * Chris Mason wrote: > [ re: pipes, ok I don't know of realistic pipe benchmarks but I'll run > them if people can suggest one ] Threaded servers making heavy use of sys_splice() ought to hit the pipe mutex all the time. Ingo