From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
Aidar Kultayev <the.aidar@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.36 io bring the system to its knees
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:50:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101028135038.GA32157@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101028134724.GB4416@infradead.org>
* Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 03:30:36PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > Looks mostly VFS to me. Aidar, does killing Picasa make things smoother for you?
> > > If so, maybe the VFS scalability patches will help.
> >
> > Hm, but the VFS scalability patches mostly decrease CPU usage, and does that
> > mostly on many-core systems.
>
> If you have i_mutex contention they are not going to change anything.
Yes, that was my point.
Thanks,
Ingo
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2010-10-28 6:09 ` 2.6.36 io bring the system to its knees Aidar Kultayev
2010-10-28 6:32 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-10-28 9:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-28 9:34 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-10-28 11:16 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-10-28 11:33 ` Aidar Kultayev
2010-10-28 11:48 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-10-28 12:18 ` Aidar Kultayev
2010-10-28 13:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-28 13:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-28 13:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-28 13:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-28 13:50 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2010-10-28 17:01 ` Chris Mason
2010-10-28 17:57 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-10-29 14:52 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-10-29 15:33 ` Aidar Kultayev
2010-10-30 9:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-30 13:02 ` Aidar Kultayev
2010-10-30 19:06 ` Chris Mason
2010-10-31 2:31 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-10-31 17:49 ` Corrado Zoccolo
2010-11-02 3:10 ` Shaohua Li
2010-11-02 11:47 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2010-11-02 13:12 ` Chris Mason
2010-11-04 16:05 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2010-11-04 23:35 ` Steven Barrett
2010-11-04 23:44 ` Jesper Juhl
2010-11-04 23:48 ` Jesper Juhl
2010-11-05 1:43 ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-05 12:48 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2010-11-06 14:10 ` dave b
2010-11-06 15:12 ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-07 6:06 ` dave b
2010-11-07 12:08 ` Jens Axboe
2010-11-07 15:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-10 1:32 ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-10 2:01 ` dave b
2010-11-10 8:08 ` Evgeniy Ivanov
2010-11-10 8:24 ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-10 14:22 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-10 14:20 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-10 14:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-11-10 14:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-10 19:09 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-10 14:33 ` Theodore Tso
2010-11-10 14:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-10 15:00 ` Chris Mason
2010-11-10 23:36 ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-10 15:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-10 16:46 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-11-10 16:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-10 17:10 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-11-10 18:55 ` Mark Lord
2010-11-10 18:27 ` Mike Galbraith
2010-11-10 23:43 ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-06 19:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-11-07 17:16 ` Jesper Juhl
2010-11-09 19:47 ` Evgeniy Ivanov
2010-11-09 20:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-09 21:00 ` Chris Mason
2010-10-31 1:22 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-10-31 1:51 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-11-01 1:09 ` Dimitrios Apostolou
2010-11-02 1:20 ` Wu Fengguang
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