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From: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
To: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dio: lock refcount operations
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:34:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4542977E.5030007@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x49odrxnyyt.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com>


> zach.brown> The addition of the interrupt masking spin lock acquiry in
> zach.brown> dio_bio_submit() looks alarming.  This lock acquiry existed in
> zach.brown> that path before the recent dio completion patch set.  We
> zach.brown> shouldn't expect significant performance regression from
> zach.brown> returning to the behaviour that existed before the completion
> zach.brown> clean up work. 
> 
> Are you going to quantify this at all?  I think we should.

I could try to take a swing at it next week, sure.

Leaving it for Ken is pretty tempting, though :)

- z

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-27 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-27 18:17 [PATCH] dio: lock refcount operations Zach Brown
2006-10-27 19:27 ` Jeff Moyer
2006-10-27 20:34   ` Zach Brown
2006-10-27 23:03     ` Jeff Moyer
2006-10-27 23:34       ` Zach Brown [this message]
2006-11-02  1:51       ` Zach Brown

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