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From: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com>, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>,
	Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>, Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>,
	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	autofs@vger.kernel.org, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
	"Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" <aswin@hp.com>,
	"Norton, Scott J" <scott.norton@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3 v3] dcache: make it more scalable on large system
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 16:37:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51A66701.6050104@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130529165603.GL6123@two.firstfloor.org>

On 05/29/2013 12:56 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:18:09PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
>> To be honest a workload base on /etc/passwd or /etc/group is completely
>> artificial, in actual usage, if you really have  such access you use
>> nscd or sssd with their shared memory caches to completely remove most
>> of the file access.
> I don't fully agree at this point. A lot of things can be tuned away,
> but in practice we want things to perform well out of the box without
> needing all kinds of magic tuning that only
>
> Also this is just normal file access, nothing special about it.
> It simply has to scale. For all kinds of workloads.
>
> And it does, just d_path messes it up.

Just for clarification, the AIM7 workload is not affected by the current 
d_path() code, they are speed-limited by the lock contention in the 
dcache reference counting code. However, both the d_path() change and  
the dentry reference counting change are needed to to eliminate the 
overhead introduced by the use of the perf-record command.

Regards,
Longman

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-29 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-23  1:37 [PATCH 0/3 v3] dcache: make it more scalable on large system Waiman Long
2013-05-23  1:37 ` [PATCH 1/3 v3] dcache: Don't take unnecessary lock in d_count update Waiman Long
2013-05-23  1:37 ` Waiman Long
2013-05-23  1:37 ` [PATCH 2/3 v3] dcache: introduce a new sequence read/write lock type Waiman Long
2013-05-23  1:37 ` Waiman Long
2013-05-23  1:37 ` [PATCH 3/3 v3] dcache: change rename_lock to a sequence read/write lock Waiman Long
2013-05-23  1:37 ` Waiman Long
2013-05-23  9:42 ` [PATCH 0/3 v3] dcache: make it more scalable on large system Dave Chinner
2013-05-23 21:34   ` Waiman Long
2013-05-27  2:09     ` Dave Chinner
2013-05-29 15:55       ` Waiman Long
     [not found]         ` <51A624E2.3000301-VXdhtT5mjnY@public.gmane.org>
2013-05-29 16:13           ` Andi Kleen
     [not found]             ` <20130529161358.GJ6123-1g7Xle2YJi4/4alezvVtWx2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-05-29 20:23               ` Waiman Long
2013-05-29 16:18           ` Simo Sorce
2013-05-29 16:56             ` Andi Kleen
2013-05-29 17:03               ` Simo Sorce
2013-05-29 20:37               ` Waiman Long [this message]
     [not found]             ` <1369844289.2769.146.camel-Hs+ccMQdwurzDu64bZtGtWD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2013-05-29 20:32               ` Waiman Long
2013-05-29 18:46           ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-05-29 20:37             ` Andi Kleen
     [not found]               ` <20130529203700.GM6123-1g7Xle2YJi4/4alezvVtWx2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-05-29 20:43                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-05-29 21:01                   ` Andi Kleen
2013-05-29 21:19               ` Jörn Engel
2013-05-30 15:48                 ` Waiman Long
2013-05-30 15:11                   ` Jörn Engel
2013-06-06  3:48               ` Dave Chinner
2013-05-29 20:40             ` Waiman Long
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2013-05-23  1:37 Waiman Long

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