From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Hanna Linder <hannal@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@zip.com.au
Subject: Re: 12 way dbench analysis: 2.5.9, dalloc and fastwalkdcache
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:00:26 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020420010026.GC21850@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020418081843.GE4209@krispykreme> <4490000.1019176339@w-hlinder.des>
Hi Hanna,
> Thanks Anton for running this. The data on your website will be very
> useful to me. I fixed one problem and put the patch up on sourceforge.
> undo_locked() called dget() while holding the dcache_lock instead of
> dget_locked() which is designed to be called with the dcache_lock
> held.
>
> This patch is against 2.5.8 at:
> http://prdownloads.sf.net/lse/fast_walkA1-2.5.8.patch
>
> However, I recently found a deadlock that no one else has been able
> to reproduce. Could you try doing a find on /proc and tell me if it
> deadlocks?
Indeed that does deadlock, I'll give the new patch a go (with Pauls
undo_locked suggestion). I did get a dcache BUG() when I tried an SDET
run (lost the details unfortunately) but I'll try to reproduce it with
this patch.
Anton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-20 1:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-18 8:18 12 way dbench analysis: 2.5.9, dalloc and fastwalkdcache Anton Blanchard
2002-04-18 8:58 ` Andrew Morton
2002-04-20 0:50 ` Anton Blanchard
2002-04-18 15:17 ` Rusty Russell
2002-04-19 0:32 ` Hanna Linder
2002-04-20 1:00 ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
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2002-04-19 20:11 Paul Menage
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