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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Balancing near the locking cliff, with some numbers
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 05:46:07 +0100
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On Saturday 05 November 2005 04:12, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:56:59PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > open:
> > locks: 106 sems: 32 atomics: 50 rwlocks: 30 irqsaves: 89 barriers: 47
>
> How long was the pathname and how much of that was in cache?

It read random files from /usr/X11R6/bin to get something out of cache.
The bin directory was likely all in dcache and the directory lpages in buffer 
cache.

-Andi