From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>,
"Ananiev, Leonid I" <leonid.i.ananiev@intel.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <Linux-Kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Postal 56% waits for flock_lock_file_wait
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:51:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1159811516.8907.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1159809081.5466.3.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>
Ar Llu, 2006-10-02 am 13:11 -0400, ysgrifennodd Trond Myklebust:
> Ext3 does not use flock() in order to lock its journal. The performance
> issues that he is seeing may well be due to the journalling, but that
> has nothing to do with flock_lock_file_wait.
The ext3 journal also generally speaking improves many-writer
performance as do the reservations so the claim seems odd on that basis
too. Rerun the test on a gigabyte iRam or similar and you'll see where
the non-media bottlenecks actually are
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-02 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-01 16:53 Postal 56% waits for flock_lock_file_wait Ananiev, Leonid I
2006-10-01 17:18 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-10-02 16:57 ` Tim Chen
2006-10-02 17:11 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-10-02 17:51 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-10-02 17:40 ` Dave Jones
2006-10-02 22:00 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-02 21:40 ` Dave Jones
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2006-09-30 17:26 Ananiev, Leonid I
2006-10-01 4:05 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-30 5:25 Ananiev, Leonid I
2006-09-30 15:05 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-29 15:36 Ananiev, Leonid I
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