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From: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Vivek Haldar <haldar@google.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] Avoid hot statistics cache line in ext4 extent cache
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:53:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1334339612.3796.2.camel@schen9-DESK> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFx8UsBEqK2KA_7D4YNGYrtcNaduvuEUcLfbRRjSXS_Xeg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 10:42 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> >
> > Ping. This scalability problem is still in 3.4-rc* and causes
> > major slowdowns.
> 
> Do you have numbers?
> 

In a benchmark that does mmaped-read, there is a 28% speed up
after getting rid of the counters.

> > Can we please revert fix it or revert
> > 556b27abf73833923d5cd4be80006292e1b31662 before release.
> 
> That commit ID doesn't make any sense, and doesn't seem to have
> anything to do with any statistics counters that your email talks
> about. So regardless, you'd need to explain why that commit causes the
> problems you talk about, I'm not going to revert a random commit that
> doesn't even look what you describe.
> 
> Ted?
> 
>                 Linus



  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-13 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-23 22:17 [RFC, PATCH] Avoid hot statistics cache line in ext4 extent cache Andi Kleen
2012-03-24  1:10 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-03-24  3:13   ` Andi Kleen
2012-03-26 22:26     ` Vivek Haldar
2012-03-26 23:00       ` Andi Kleen
2012-03-26 23:57         ` Ted Ts'o
2012-04-11 16:59           ` Andi Kleen
2012-04-13 17:42             ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-13 17:53               ` Tim Chen [this message]
2012-04-13 18:08                 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-13 18:31                   ` Tim Chen
2012-04-13 18:33                     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-13 18:37                     ` Ted Ts'o
2012-04-13 18:41                       ` Andi Kleen
2012-04-13 18:48                         ` Ted Ts'o
2012-04-13 19:01                           ` Eric Whitney
2012-04-13 19:26                       ` Tim Chen
2012-04-13 19:33                         ` Ted Ts'o
2012-04-13 17:57               ` Andi Kleen
2012-04-13 18:06               ` Ted Ts'o
2012-04-13 18:22                 ` Andi Kleen

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