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From: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>
To: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, mrubin@google.com
Subject: Re: Results of my VFS scaling evaluation.
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 20:38:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101009003842.GH30846@shell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1286580739.3153.57.camel@bobble.smo.corp.google.com>

On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 04:32:19PM -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote:
> 
> Before going into details of the test results, however, I must say that
> the most striking thing about Nick's work how stable it is.  In all of

:D

> the work I've been doing, all the kernels I've built and run and all the
> tests I've run, I've run into no hangs and only one crash, that in an
> area that we happen to stress very heavily, for which I posted a patch,
> available at
>  http://www.kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-fsdevel/2010/9/27/6886943
> The crash involved the fact that we use cgroups very heavily, and there
> was an oversight in the new d_set_d_op() routine that failed to clear
> flags before it set them.

I honestly can't stand the d_set_d_op() patch (testing flags instead
of d_op->op) because it obfuscates the code in such a way that leads
directly to this kind of bug.  I don't suppose you could test the
performance effect of that specific patch and see how big of a
difference it makes?

-VAL

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-09  0:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-08 23:32 Results of my VFS scaling evaluation Frank Mayhar
2010-10-09  0:33 ` Frank Mayhar
2010-10-09  0:38 ` Valerie Aurora [this message]
2010-10-11 18:47   ` Frank Mayhar
2011-01-13 11:13   ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-09  3:16 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-10  6:54   ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-10  7:37     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-10  8:20       ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-10  8:37         ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-10 12:03           ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-10 23:50             ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-10 23:31         ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-10  6:50 ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-19 21:59 ` Results of my VFS scaling evaluation, redux Frank Mayhar
2010-10-19 22:03   ` Frank Mayhar
2010-10-22 19:03 ` VFS scaling evaluation results, redux Frank Mayhar
2010-10-23  0:00   ` Lin Ming

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