On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 6:11 AM Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu 07-09-23 17:52:12, Wei Xu wrote: > [...] > > I tested this patch on a machine with 384 CPUs using a microbenchmark > > that spawns 10K threads, each reading its memory.stat every 100 > > milliseconds. > > This is rather extreme case but I wouldn't call it utterly insane > though. > > > Most of memory.stat reads take 5ms-10ms in kernel, with > > ~5% reads even exceeding 1 second. > > Just curious, what would numbers look like if the mutex is removed and > those threads would be condending on the existing spinlock with lock > dropping in place and removed. Would you be willing to give it a shot? Without the mutex and with the spinlock only, the common read latency of memory.stat is still 5ms-10ms in kernel. There are very few reads (<0.003%) going above 10ms and none more than 1 second. > -- > Michal Hocko > SUSE Labs
