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From: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
To: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>,
	John Hawkes <hawkes@tomahawk.engr.sgi.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.10-mm3 scaling problem with inotify
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:15:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1105726549.6027.268.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002301c4fa63$9d9d3b10$6900a8c0@comcast.net>

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 10:05 -0800, John Hawkes wrote:

> The patch shows a substantial 4x improvement for my specific workload (@64p),
> although I can still envision workloads that will stimulate high spinlock
> contention from spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock).  First things first -- let's get
> this fix into the -mm tree.  Thanks!

Glad it worked!

Does the spin_lock() show up in dnotify's code path?  It is getting
called, unconditionally, there, too.

	Robert Love



  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-14 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-13 23:56 2.6.10-mm3 scaling problem with inotify John Hawkes
2005-01-14  0:49 ` Robert Love
2005-01-14  1:31   ` John McCutchan
2005-01-14  2:29     ` Robert Love
2005-01-14 18:05       ` John Hawkes
2005-01-14 18:15         ` Robert Love [this message]
2005-01-14 18:39           ` John Hawkes
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-01-14  0:51 John Hawkes
2005-01-14  2:31 Zou, Nanhai
2005-01-14  2:36 ` John McCutchan
2005-01-14  2:41 ` Robert Love

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