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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: "Joseph D. Wagner" <wagnerjd@prodigy.net>
Cc: "'Rob Mueller'" <robm@fastmail.fm>,
	"'Mark Hahn'" <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"'Jeremy Howard'" <jhoward@fastmail.fm>
Subject: Re: Strange load spikes on 2.4.19 kernel
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 18:59:38 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021013085938.GA23575@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001c27286$6ab6bc60$7443f4d1@joe>


> I'll let you in on a dirty little secret.  The Linux file system does
> not utilize SMP.  That's right.  All file processes go through one and
> only one processor.  It has to do with the fact that the Linux kernel is
> a non-preemptive kernel.

My 24 way SMP disagrees with your analysis:

http://samba.org/~anton/linux/2.5.40/dbench/

Thats just ext2. dbench is a filesystem benchmark that is heavy on
inode/block allocation.

Please show us your profiles which show linux filesystems do not
utilise SMP.

Anton

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-10-13  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0210130202070.17395-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2002-10-13  6:34 ` Strange load spikes on 2.4.19 kernel Rob Mueller
2002-10-13  7:01   ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-10-13  7:01     ` David S. Miller
2002-10-13  7:49       ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-10-13  7:50         ` David S. Miller
2002-10-13  8:16           ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-10-13  8:13             ` David S. Miller
2002-10-13  8:40               ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-10-13  8:45                 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-13  8:48                 ` Mike Galbraith
2002-10-13  8:48                   ` David S. Miller
2002-10-13  8:51                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-10-13 10:20                 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-13 19:42                 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-16 21:00         ` Bill Davidsen
2002-10-13  8:59     ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2002-10-13  9:26       ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-10-13 12:31   ` Marius Gedminas
2002-12-11 22:54 Steven Roussey
2002-12-11 23:09 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-11 23:54   ` Steven Roussey
2002-12-12  0:13     ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-12  0:31       ` Steven Roussey
     [not found] <113001c27282$93955eb0$1900a8c0@lifebook.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <000001c27286$6ab6bc60$7443f4d1@joe.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]   ` <20021013.000127.43007739.davem@redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-10-13  7:24     ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-13  7:21       ` David S. Miller
2002-10-13 11:47       ` Hugh Dickins
2002-10-13 18:29         ` Andrew Morton
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0210121605490.16179-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2002-10-13  0:49 ` Rob Mueller
     [not found] <001401c2719b$9d45c4a0$53241c43@joe>
2002-10-12  6:54 ` Rob Mueller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-12  3:13 Joseph D. Wagner
2002-10-12  3:10 Joseph D. Wagner
2002-10-12  1:12 Rob Mueller
2002-10-12  1:25 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-12  2:25   ` Rob Mueller
2002-10-12  3:07     ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-12  6:37       ` Rob Mueller
2002-10-12  6:44         ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-12  6:52           ` Rob Mueller
2002-10-12  7:00             ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-13  6:14               ` Rob Mueller
2002-10-13  7:27                 ` Simon Kirby

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