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From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] lockmeter results comparing 2.4.17, 2.5.3, and 2.5.5
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:31:17 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a5jj75$cuk$1@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C7D374B.4621F9BA@zip.com.au> <3C7D374B.4621F9BA@zip.com.au> <86760000.1014840118@flay> <3C7D3E5A.490D939D@zip.com.au>

In article <3C7D3E5A.490D939D@zip.com.au>,
Andrew Morton  <akpm@zip.com.au> wrote:
>"Martin J. Bligh" wrote:
>> 
>> Seeing as people seem to be interested ... there are some big holders
>> of BKL around too - do_exit shows up badly (50ms in the data Hanna
>> posted, and I've seen that a lot before).
>
>That'll be where exit() takes down the tasks's address spaces.  
>zap_page_range().  That's a nasty one.

No, lock_kernel happens after exit_mm, and in fact I suspect it's not
really needed at all any more except for the current "sem_exit()". I
think most everything else is threaded already.

(Hmm.. Maybe disassociate_ctty() too).

So minimizing the BLK footprint in do_exit() should be pretty much
trivial: all the really interesting stuff should be ok already.

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-27 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-27 18:19 lockmeter results comparing 2.4.17, 2.5.3, and 2.5.5 Hanna Linder
2002-02-27 18:34 ` [Lse-tech] " Martin J. Bligh
2002-02-27 19:27   ` Linus Torvalds
2002-02-27 19:45   ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-27 19:57     ` Hanna Linder
2002-02-28  8:31       ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2002-02-27 20:01     ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-02-27 20:15       ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-27 21:31         ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2002-02-27 21:48     ` Alexander Viro
2002-02-27 23:14       ` Hanna Linder
2002-02-27 23:32       ` Hanna Linder
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-27 21:30 Niels Christiansen

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