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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [BENCHMARKS] 2.6.4 vs 2.6.4-mm1
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 10:50:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040319095047.GA6301@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40525C1F.5030705@cyberone.com.au>


* Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote:

> volanomark (MPS):
> This one starts getting huge mmap_sem contention at 150+ coming
> from futexes. Don't know what is taking the mmap_sem for writing.
> Maybe just brk or mmap.

are you sure it's down_write() contention? down_read() can create
contention just as much, simply due to the fact that hundreds of threads
and a dozen CPUs are pounding in on the same poor lock.

i do think there should be a rw-semaphore variant that is per-cpu for
the read path. (This would also fix the 4:4 threading overhead.)

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-19  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-13  0:55 [BENCHMARKS] 2.6.4 vs 2.6.4-mm1 Nick Piggin
2004-03-19  9:50 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2004-03-19  9:58   ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-21  4:04     ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-21  7:31       ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-21  8:08         ` Nick Piggin

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