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From: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
To: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>, Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>,
	Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] locking/rwsem: more aggressive use of optimistic spinning
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 09:40:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1408174826.5575.33.camel@marge.simpson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53EE4A31.5080407@hp.com>

On Fri, 2014-08-15 at 13:58 -0400, Waiman Long wrote:

> Thank for the testing recipe. I am afraid that I can't find a 500TB SSD 
> for testing purpose. Do you think the test will still be valid for 
> exercising rwsem if I use a smaller SSD or maybe mechanical hard disk?

I suspect fs_mark will fit in less than a cubic meter of silicon.  You
definitely don't want to use a 400GB USB2 drive to find out though. 

FSUse%        Count         Size    Files/sec     App Overhead
     0       800000            0      22474.9          5551907
     0      1600000            0       1550.0        314304154
     0      2400000            0        832.3        928216719

zzzzz... nope, nobody is _that_ bored ^C 

(starts xfs_repair, perf top.. snort)

Nope, you definitely don't want USB2 crapware for that either :)

	-Mike


  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-16  7:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-04  2:36 [PATCH 0/7] locking/rwsem: enable reader opt-spinning & writer respin Waiman Long
2014-08-04  2:36 ` [PATCH 1/7] locking/rwsem: don't resched at the end of optimistic spinning Waiman Long
2014-08-04  7:55   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-08-04 18:36     ` Waiman Long
2014-08-04 20:48       ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-08-04 21:12         ` Jason Low
2014-08-05 17:54         ` Waiman Long
2014-08-04  2:36 ` [PATCH 2/7] locking/rwsem: more aggressive use " Waiman Long
2014-08-04  4:09   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-08-04  4:10   ` Jason Low
2014-08-04 15:44     ` Waiman Long
2014-08-13  5:51       ` Dave Chinner
2014-08-13 16:41         ` Waiman Long
2014-08-15  3:34           ` Dave Chinner
2014-08-15 17:58             ` Waiman Long
2014-08-16  7:40               ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2014-08-17 23:41               ` Dave Chinner
2014-08-18 22:48                 ` Waiman Long
2014-08-04  2:36 ` [PATCH 3/7] locking/rwsem: check for active writer/spinner before wakeup Waiman Long
2014-08-04 21:20   ` Jason Low
2014-08-05 17:56     ` Waiman Long
2014-08-04  2:36 ` [PATCH 4/7] locking/rwsem: threshold limited spinning for active readers Waiman Long
2014-08-05  4:54   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-08-05  5:30     ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-08-05  5:41       ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-08-05 18:14     ` Waiman Long
2014-08-04  2:36 ` [PATCH 5/7] locking/rwsem: move down rwsem_down_read_failed function Waiman Long
2014-08-04  2:36 ` [PATCH 6/7] locking/rwsem: enables optimistic spinning for readers Waiman Long
2014-08-04  2:36 ` [PATCH 7/7] locking/rwsem: allow waiting writers to go back to optimistic spinning Waiman Long
2014-08-04  4:25 ` [PATCH 0/7] locking/rwsem: enable reader opt-spinning & writer respin Davidlohr Bueso
2014-08-04 18:07   ` Waiman Long

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