Re: more dput lock contentions in 2.6.38-rc?

[Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>]

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 09:34 +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 09:26 +0800, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 09:04 +0800, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> wrote:
> > >> > Hi,
> > >> > we are testing dbench benchmark and see big drop of 2.6.38-rc compared
> > >> > to 2.6.37 in several machines with 2 sockets or 4 sockets. We have 12
> > >> > disks mount to /mnt/stp/dbenchdata/sd*/ and dbench runs against data of
> > >> > the disks. According to perf, we saw more lock contentions:
> > >> > In 2.6.37: 13.00%        dbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] _raw_spin_lock
> > >> > In 2.6.38-rc: 69.45%        dbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k]_raw_spin_lock
> > >> > -     69.45%        dbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] _raw_spin_lock
> > >> >   - _raw_spin_lock
> > >> >      - 48.41% dput
> > >> >         - 61.17% path_put
> > >> >            - 60.47% do_path_lookup
> > >> >               + 53.18% user_path_at
> > >> >               + 42.13% do_filp_open
> > >> >               + 4.69% user_path_parent
> > >>
> > >> What filesystems are mounted on the path?
> > > ext3 or ext4
> > 
> > ext3 or 4 along every step of the path? Are there
> > any acls loaded, or security policy running?
> all disks are formated with the same fs, just some machines use ext3 and
> others ext4. no we don't have acl or security policy.
> > It may be possible that they're all coming from
> > /proc/ access.
> I added trace in dput just after the lock taken. and most files are '/',
> 'mnt', 'stp'. the percentage of 'proc' is small actually.
Hi Nick,
Anything I can test for this issue?

Thanks,
Shaohua