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From: "John Hawkes" <hawkes@sgi.com>
To: "Linux-Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5: push BKL out of llseek
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:29:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01ec01c1ab56$ba7d5e40$6401a8c0@attbi.com> (raw)

From: "Dave Jones" <davej@suse.de>
>  did you benchmark with anything other than dbench ?

I've done substantial AIM7 benchmarking on a 28p ia64 NUMA system, and
llseek's BKL usage is a significant contributor to poor scaling.  For
500 AIM7 "tasks" and ext2 filesystems, waiting on the BKL consumes about
half of the available CPU cycles, and sys_lseek()'s usage is the most
significant cycle waster, followed by ext2_get_block() and
ext2_write_inode().  Anton's llseek patch from last November does make
a measurable improvement in AIM7 throughput.

--
John Hawkes
hawkes@sgi.com



             reply	other threads:[~2002-02-01 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-01 19:29 John Hawkes [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-31 15:39 [PATCH] 2.5: push BKL out of llseek Martin Wirth
2002-01-31 21:06 ` Nigel Gamble
2002-01-30 21:14 Martin Wirth
2002-01-30  0:00 Robert Love
2002-01-30  0:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-30  0:41   ` Robert Love
2002-01-30  0:52     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-30  2:24       ` Robert Love
2002-01-30  1:26     ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-30  2:16       ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-30  2:20       ` Robert Love
2002-01-30  2:20         ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-30  2:21         ` Dave Jones
2002-01-30  2:37           ` Robert Love
2002-01-30  2:50         ` Nigel Gamble
2002-01-30  3:19           ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-30  9:34             ` Nigel Gamble
2002-01-30 10:36         ` Russell King
2002-01-30  4:54   ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-30  8:00     ` Trond Myklebust
2002-01-30 13:39       ` Robert Love
2002-01-30  4:50 ` Anton Blanchard
2002-01-30  5:03 ` Robert Love

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