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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Direct io on block device has performance regression on 2.6.x kernel
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:23:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1r7iov1ya.fsf@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200503092218.j29MICg26503@unix-os.sc.intel.com> (Kenneth W. Chen's message of "Wed, 9 Mar 2005 14:18:12 -0800")

"Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> writes:
>
> Just to clarify here, these data need to be taken at grain of salt. A
> high count in _spin_unlock_* functions do not automatically points to
> lock contention.  It's one of the blind spot syndrome with timer based
> profile on ia64.  There are some lock contentions in 2.6 kernel that
> we are staring at.  Please do not misinterpret the number here.

Why don't you use oprofileÂ>? It uses NMIs and can profile "inside" 
interrupt disabled sections.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-09 23:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-09 22:18 Direct io on block device has performance regression on 2.6.x kernel Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-09 23:23 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-03-09 23:52   ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-09 23:52   ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-10  1:00     ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-10  0:57   ` Chen, Kenneth W
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-10  2:04 Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-10  1:24 Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-09  1:53 Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-09  1:39 Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-09  6:27 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-09 17:21   ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-09 20:04     ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-09 21:59       ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-09 22:44         ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-10  1:11           ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-10  1:33             ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-10  1:44               ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-10  2:25     ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-10  3:47       ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-10  4:04         ` David Lang
2005-03-10  4:10           ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-10  4:09         ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-10 18:31           ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-10 20:30             ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-10 21:42               ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-10 22:01                 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-10  4:28         ` Andrew Vasquez

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