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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Oliver Sang <oliver.sang@intel.com>,
	oe-lkp@lists.linux.dev, lkp@intel.com,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, ying.huang@intel.com,
	feng.tang@intel.com, fengwei.yin@intel.com,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [viro-vfs:work.dcache2] [__dentry_kill()]  1b738f196e: stress-ng.sysinfo.ops_per_sec -27.2% regression
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2023 16:45:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231206164513.GO1674809@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231206163010.445vjwmfwwvv65su@f>

On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 05:30:10PM +0100, Mateusz Guzik wrote:

> > What the hell is going on?  Was ->d_lock on parent serving as a throttle and reducing
> > the access rate to something badly contended down the road?  I don't see anything
> > of that sort in the profile changes, though...

> Not an outlandish claim would be that after you stopped taking one of
> them, spinning went down and more traffic was put on locks which *can*
> put their consumers off cpu (and which *do* do it in this test).

That's about the only guess I've got (see above), but if that's the case, which lock would
that be?

> All that said I think it would help if these reports started including
> off cpu time (along with bt) at least for spawned threads.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-12-06 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-30  4:54 [viro-vfs:work.dcache2] [__dentry_kill()] 1b738f196e: stress-ng.sysinfo.ops_per_sec -27.2% regression kernel test robot
2023-11-30  7:55 ` Al Viro
2023-12-01  2:13   ` Oliver Sang
2023-12-01  2:42     ` Oliver Sang
2023-12-01  4:09     ` Al Viro
2023-12-01  6:56       ` Al Viro
2023-12-01 20:04         ` Al Viro
2023-12-04 13:37           ` Oliver Sang
2023-12-04 19:53             ` Al Viro
2023-12-06  2:40               ` Oliver Sang
2023-12-06  5:49                 ` Al Viro
2023-12-06 14:56                   ` Oliver Sang
2023-12-06 16:15                     ` Al Viro
2023-12-06 16:30                       ` Mateusz Guzik
2023-12-06 16:42                         ` Mateusz Guzik
2023-12-06 17:09                           ` Al Viro
2023-12-06 17:24                             ` Mateusz Guzik
2023-12-06 18:30                               ` Mateusz Guzik
2023-12-07  2:29                                 ` Oliver Sang
2023-12-08 18:07                                   ` Mateusz Guzik
2023-12-06 21:07                               ` Al Viro
2023-12-06 21:41                                 ` Mateusz Guzik
2023-12-06 16:45                         ` Al Viro [this message]
2023-12-06 16:52                           ` Mateusz Guzik

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