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From: tytso@mit.edu
To: "Chen, Tim C" <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
	"linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>,
	keith maanthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: ext4 dbench performance with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:58:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100410115816.GH1849@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EA929A9653AAE14F841771FB1DE5A1365FE4FCD4BC@rrsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 05:48:23PM -0600, Chen, Tim C wrote:
>  
> Your patch did remove the contention on the j_state_lock for dbench
> in my testing with 64 threads.  The contention point now
> moves dcache_lock, which is also another tricky bottleneck.
> 
> In our other testing with FFSB that creates/rename/remove a lot of directories,
> we found that journal->j_revoke_lock was also heavily contended.
> 

Do you have lock_stat reports handy?  I'd love to take a look at them.

Thanks,

						- Ted

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-10 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-07 23:21 ext4 dbench performance with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT john stultz
2010-04-08  3:46 ` tytso
2010-04-08 10:18   ` Theodore Tso
2010-04-08 20:41   ` john stultz
2010-04-08 21:10     ` tytso
2010-04-13  3:52       ` john stultz
2010-04-14  3:04       ` john stultz
2010-04-08 22:37   ` Mingming Cao
2010-04-12 19:46   ` Jan Kara
2010-04-13 14:52     ` tytso
2010-04-13 16:25       ` Darren Hart
2010-06-02 22:35       ` j_state_lock patch data (was: Re: ext4 dbench performance with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) Eric Whitney
2010-04-09 15:49 ` ext4 dbench performance with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT Andi Kleen
2010-04-09 23:33   ` tytso
2010-04-09 23:48     ` Chen, Tim C
2010-04-09 23:57       ` john stultz
2010-04-10 11:58       ` tytso [this message]
2010-04-12 19:54         ` Chen, Tim C

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